President Biden appointed a rabbi to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and it has some hopping mad!
Biden Nominates Lesbian Rabbi to Religious Freedom CommissionShe is a great pick!
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, leader of LGBTQ-focused Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, provides a contrast to Donald Trump's homophobic appointees.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
August 2, 2021
While Donald Trump named homophobe Tony Perkins to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, President Joe Biden is nominating a lesbian rabbi.
Biden Friday announced his intent to nominate Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, leader of LGBTQ-focused Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, to the commission, a bipartisan federal government body that monitors the right to religion and belief abroad.
Kleinbaum became Congregation Beit Simchat Torah’s first full-time rabbi in 1992. The New York Cit synagogue was founded in 1973 to serve the needs of queer Jews. Kleinbaum arrived “at the height of the AIDS crisis when the synagogue was in desperate need of pastoral care and spiritual leadership,” a White House press release notes. “She guided the congregation through a period of loss and change, while addressing social issues and building a strong and deeply spiritual community. Under her leadership as Senior Rabbi, CBST has become a powerful voice in the movement for equality and justice for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.”
However there are those who don’t agree, and they are Jewish.
Orthodox rabbis slam Biden for naming lesbian rabbi to religious freedom coalitionThe conservatives didn’t complain about Tony Perkins being appointed to Trump’s commission and he is an outspoken anti-LGBTQ+ leader. It seems to be a one-way street.
Critics have said Biden's championing of LGBTQ issues has come at the expense of religious freedom concerns
Fox News
By Tyler O'Neil
August 5, 2021
A coalition that represents some 1,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis condemned President Biden's move to nominate Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, a leader of the LGBTQ-focused Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, to the U.S. Coalition on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), saying it sends a "counter-productive" message amid threats to religious freedom.
Kleinbaum is the spouse of American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten.
"A person's sexual preferences should be a private matter, and certainly irrelevant to prayer. Kleinbaum, by contrast, leads a congregation that insists ‘LGBTQ’ is a matter of identity," Rabbi Yaakov Menken, the managing director at the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), told Fox News on Thursday, ahead of Biden's Friday announcement. "At a time when religious people are persecuted worldwide for their personal, sincere beliefs that marriage is between a man and a woman, and gender is permanent, biological, and determined at conception, placing Kleinbaum on a commission devoted to ensuring religious freedom sends precisely the wrong message and could hardly be more counter-productive."
Critics have said Biden's championing of LGBTQ issues has come at the expense of religious freedom concerns. Under Biden, the Department of Health and Human Services fought to resurrect a federal mandate forcing Roman Catholic hospitals and doctors to perform transgender surgery after a court ruled in favor of the Catholic health providers.
This is like when the Baptists were complaining about the Metropolitan Community Church not being Christians. It is funny that the affirming churches are saying that everyone is welcome in their church while the evangelical churches are saying we don’t want you if you are LGBTQ+, we don’t want you if you are a single mom, we don’t want you if you are black, we don’t want you if you are...
Which are more Christ like?
The Supreme Court is going down the path of “Religious Freedom” and is about to open a can-of-worm of whose “Religious Freedom” tops another’s “Religious Freedom”?
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