Israel Celebrates Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem as Right-Wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Appoints Gay Justice Minister, the First Openly Gay Minister in Israel
U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem also sent a delegation to the gay parade to show support
By Julio Severo
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
appointed Likud lawmaker Amir Ohana as justice minister on June 5, 2019. Ohana
is a right-wing homosexual.
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| Gay parade in Jerusalem |
Netanyahu’s spokesman Yonatan Urich said: “For
the first time ever, a member of the LGBT community will be a senior member of
the Israeli government.”
MK Idan Roll, who is also gay,
congratulated Ohana and said he hopes the new minister will use the post to
advance the demands from the LGBT community.
Netanyahu’s appointment of a homosexual as
justice minister was a gift to homosexualists and their parade in Jerusalem.
Over
10,000 joined the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem on June 6. A sea of rainbow
flags flooded Jerusalem’s streets with Israelis and foreigners marching in the
18th annual Gay Pride Parade.
Amir Ohana also attended the event.
Eitan Ginzburg, who is the first openly
gay Israeli to serve as a mayor in Israel, also attended it.
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem also sent a
delegation to the parade to show support and solidarity. Such move follows the new
direction of U.S. President Donald Trump to show support for homosexuality around
the world.
The problem with Netanyahu appointing the
first openly homosexual minister in Israel is that as a right-wing leader he
should fight the pro-homosexuality trend clearly promoted by left-wingers. If
he wants to promote homosexual cause, why not join the left?
As to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, evangelical
leaders and ministers attended its inauguration last year. Certainly, they did
it to pray and consecrate it for better relations with Israel, not for better
relations with homosexuality. They prayed and consecrated the embassy to
support Israel, not to support homosexuality.
Evangelical leaders in the U.S. and around
the world enthusiastically support Netanyahu and they prayerfully supported
Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Now they should tell to
Netanyahu and Trump that they do not agree with government actions to support
homosexuality, by Netanyahu appointing a homosexual and by the U.S. Embassy in
Jerusalem sending a delegation to support the Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem.
The big issue for conservative evangelicals
is that if they made all effort to fight Obama and other left-wing leaders who
showed support for homosexuality, why tolerate this same support from right-wingers?
Evangelicals
knew what to do when the Obama administration supported gay parades. But they
do not know what to do when they see the Trump administration doing exactly the
same thing. They run the risk of seeming inconsistent or
even hypocritical for tolerating in Netanyahu and Trump what they never
tolerated in Obama.
The right in Israel and the U.S. is
corrupting itself. Conservative evangelicals should pray and watch so that the
right may not make them fall into temptation.
Portuguese version of this article: Israel
celebra parada do orgulho gay em Jerusalém enquanto o primeiro-ministro direitista
Benjamin Netanyahu nomeia ministro da Justiça gay, o primeiro ministro assumidamente
gay em Israel
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