What can bring together Christians, Muslims and Jews?

It must be something so prolific that they can all agree and share a common goal standing arm in arm with each other.  They’re all religions who obviously love humankind and wish to see everyone saved, so you’d be correct in assuming it must be something powerful.  So what is it?  Hatred, of course!  That is, hatred of gays:

Even as the ties between Palestinian and Israeli politicians strained against the current crises in Gaza, religious officials from the Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities united Tuesday to oppose a gay pride parade in Jerusalem.

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“I promise there’s going to be bloodshed – not just on that day, but for months afterward,” declared New York Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a representative of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.

“In America, we are outraged and disgusted over this event. There are millions of people who, with their bodies, souls and money, will stand against this… I will be here afterwards to remind you and to say, ‘I warned you and you did nothing.'”

“If gays will dare approach the Temple Mount during the parade, they will do so over our dead bodies,” said MK Ibrahim Sarsur (United Arab List- Ta’al).

Last week, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar wrote to Pope Benedict XVI asking for the church to issue an official condemnation. While the pope has not commented on the event, an ambassador from the Vatican told the committee that “as a representative of the Holy See to Israel, I believe… holding this event would contradict the sacred nature of Jerusalem.”

Other religious figures, including imams and several representatives from the Coptic church, also spoke against holding the event in Jerusalem.

“Go send them to parade somewhere else,” said one Sufi cleric. “That place can become Sodom, and God can smite them there.”

Nice.  Can you feel god’s love?  I sure can.

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