Bible-Believers in Military Alerted to Prohibitions of Participation in LGBT Policies Mandated by the Proposed Repeal of the Law Banning Homosexuals in the Military.
Monsey, NY – December 17, 2010 — Ahead of a looming Senate vote on repealing the current law banning homosexuals from the Armed Forces, Rabbi Noson Leiter, Executive Director of Torah Jews for Decency, an Orthodox pro-decency and religious-liberties advocacy organization, issued the following statement:
“We ask citizens to urge their Senators, the GOP leadership, and swing Senators (202-224-3121 (24/7)), to do whatever it takes to stop the treasonous effort to force servicemen to betray their Biblical beliefs. A homosexual-ban repeal would hijack the zero-tolerance military regimen, and thereby threaten to:
1. force Bible-believers to shower and use washroom facilities together with flagrant homosexuals in zero-privacy, and
2. sleep in close quarters with flagrant homosexuals, contravening religious directives to avoid indecent influences and situations;
3. potentially impinge on the rights of chaplains and others to faithfully share the undiluted Torah perspective on volitional, sinful conduct1 condemned by the Bible as abominatory (Lev. 20:13);
4. force-feed Bible-adherents heretical LGBT dogma2;
5. require participation in/ collaboration with anti-Biblical programs and policies that legitimize sin;
6. as well as decimate the morale and readiness of decency-minded servicemen,
7. resulting in unforeseen numbers of combat troops killed due to breakdown of unit cohesion, and
8. deplete the Armed Forces (according to polling data)3, ultimately threatening a draft – along with the pursuant conscription of Bible-adherent 18-year-olds into a fully homosexualized military.
“As Jews, we are immensely indebted to the American People, and especially the Armed Forces, for the religious liberty we have enjoyed. It is the values of this Constitutional Republic that have been vital in keeping America a haven from godless despots. Foundational to those values is the principle that America is not a crude, pure Democracy – in which mobocracy rules. Certain principles are to be safeguarded, regardless of the whims of Man. Included in those are individual rights – rights derived from our Creator4, not from the State. The Founders recognized that the right of Bible-believers to follow the Bible is not given by Man, and therefore cannot be taken away by Man. Moreover, as George Washington stated in his Farewell Address, religion and morality (in context, referring to the Biblical type) are essential for a free and prosperous Republic.
“These and other considerations compel us to call attention to the Torah principle that government has no authority to compel Man to disobey our Creator.4 We therefore urge Senators to rise to the challenge of defending Religious Liberty by defeating the ban-repeal – regardless of any “religious exemptions” added to expedite the euthanasia of Biblical values.
“Whatever the outcome, we intend to offer any possible assistance in advancing legal action to safeguard the rights of Jewish, Christian and Muslim servicemen whose religious liberties are threatened by LGBT tyranny.
1 E.g. see website of Alliance Defense Fund.
2 E.g. see Sefer HaChinuch 387; Biur Halacha 1:1 mitzva 6; Iggros Moshe, Yoreh Daiyoh 3:115, p.360 col.1.
3 See www.MilitaryCultureCoalition.com.
4 E.g. see Rashi on Doniel 3:16; Midrash Tehillim Shochar Tov 28; VaYikra Rabbah 33:6.
US Servicemen may contact Torah Jews for Decency for assistance in regard to such LGBT-infringements, at any point in time.”
Contact: Rabbi Noson Leiter: 845-642-1679
TorahJewsForDecency@gmail.com
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