Four years after he blamed a pair of murders on Pride parades, Rabbi Meir Mazuz is now claiming the LGBTQ+ celebrations are the reason behind the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
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Speaking at the Kisse Rahamim yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Saturday, March 7, Mazuz said that a Pride parade is “a parade against nature, and whoever acts against nature, He who created nature will avenge him,” according to Israel Hayom. “When you do things against nature, you are sticking your hand in the fire and praying that the fire will not burn you. It will burn you! Here they have the insolence to revolt against nature, the Pride Parade, what are you proud of?”
Rabbi Meir Mazuz, spiritual leader of the defunct Yachad party in #Israel and head of the Kiseh Rahamim yeshiva, said the #coronavirus is God's "revenge" for gay pride parades, Arab countries have been spared because they "don't have this evil inclination" https://t.co/zEzY3SuESz
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) March 8, 2020
He added: “All the countries that have this [evil] are all [suffering from the coronavirus] except for the Arab states that do not have this evil inclination, this thing, and aren’t suffering from this disease.”
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And he blamed Iran’s outbreak on the nation’s “horrible Israel haters,” according to the report.
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The Israel branch of the Anti-Defamation League criticized Mazuz’s comments. “It is regrettable that in times like these when the whole world comes together to eradicate coronavirus, Rabbi Mazuz finds it appropriate to blame the virus’s outbreak on the LGBTQ community,” the organization said in a statement. “We harshly condemn his statements and urge him to apologize.”
The Ne’emanei Torah Va’Avodah movement also issued a statement denouncing the rabbi’s remarks, according to The Times of Israel. “Using this time of need to incite against the LGBT community is unacceptable,” the statement read. “Trying to get people to return to religion cannot come at the price of harming others.”
As PinkNews points out, a California-based pastor also blamed the COVID-19 outbreak on LGBTQ+ individuals. Last week, Rev. Steven Andrew of the USA Christian Church declared March as “Repent of LGBT Sin Month” and said in a press releasethat “obeying God protects the USA from diseases, such as the coronavirus.”
Hussain-TheCanadian
I have an important and pressing question for the Rabbi:
Why are you wearing a 1920s Boston style gangster hat?
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Hey Rabbi Putz, you know who would be so very proud of you? ADOLPH HITLER! You are NO better then him .
undreds of thousands of Gays were tortured and slaughtered in the concentration camps alongside the Jews how fcuking dare you have the balls to spew vile repugnant hatred and bigotry on another minority when you’re a member of one of the most persecuted minorities in the history of mankind??
You decrepit noxious puddle of puke are going straight to the darkest corner of Hell when you burn out your vial mortal coil to burn in indescribable unbearable agony for all eternity
Den
Yeah, hell is not something Jews think about or threaten others with. Nor do we go for all that heaven and angel stuff Christians are so into.
That said, we sadly have no shortage of idiots like this guy, but the Reform and Reconstructionist movements, which includes most Jews, perform same sex marriages and ordain LGBT people. And the Conservative movement is getting there, with a few congregations leading the way.
The Haradi (ultraorthodox) and Chassidim might as well be living in the 14th century!
CBryanKing
What are we proud of? How about for not being a vile f*cking pos like you.