Before the state Senate and Assembly meet on January 7 and 11, please urge all three of your state legislators (800-792-8630/LegInfo@NJLeg.org) to help kill two anti-moral bills—which both threaten to pass if we don’t speak out. One, A4454/S2781, aims to propagandize the LGBT lifestyle—to kindergarteners and up in the public schools. The other, S2545, seeks the transgenderization/homosexualization of the state’s long-term healthcare facilities. (For more details see http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2020/12/10th-of-teves-alert-making-lgbt.html, http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-rabbis-should-fight-lgbt.html.)
Tell them: We refuse to vote in the upcoming elections for those who exploit children, no matter how much government largesse they offer.
The “education” bill (A4454) seeks to escalate the existing mandate to teach LGBT indoctrination in New Jersey public schools.
By teaching children to respect, “welcome” and “include” even flagrant practitioners of LGBT acts, the schools themselves erode the natural revulsion for such transgressions, and even cultivate admiration for them, all under the fraudulent pretext of “education.” We’re not talking about extending compassion to those struggling with their Evil Inclination. This is the government forcing schools to indoctrinate children to “welcome” and “include” those who brazenly flaunt abominable conduct.
Clearly, to teach children such immoral ideas and attitudes is reprehensible, even if it would never affect a single Jew. More specifically, sodomy, which all of these bills seek to legitimize, is a capital crime (VaYikra 20:13, Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings, Ch.9:6). In fact, that sin is specifically branded an “abomination” (VaYikra (Lev.) 18:22) within the enumerated forbidden relationships in VaYikra 18, all of which are categorized as “abominations”; it’s “an abomination among abominations,” as the renowned sage known as “the Maharal,” (Prague, 1520-1609) explains on the Gemara Chullin 92b.
Some secular Jews are prominent among the proponents of this and related legislation. We must clarify our unwavering, Torah-based opposition to anything remotely similar to these bills—and the extreme sins they seek to legitimize under the rubric of teaching respect.
As leading rabbis have publicly articulated since 1982, Jews are responsible for the counter-moral actions of their legislators, particularly those for whom they vote, especially due to the public chillul Hashem involved. We must not convey the terrible misimpression that Orthodox Jews care more about financial needs than spiritual threats.
Consider how many Jewish children within the New Jersey public school system, including Orthodox ones—especially those in special education classes—are being forcibly indoctrinated into respecting flagrant homosexual advocates, in direct contradiction to the Torah and what many of them were raised with. Further, allowing this nonsense to be taught in public schools will ultimately facilitate the push to teach it in yeshivas and Bais Yaakov schools.
In a war for the very souls of our children, we need to understand that the LGBT activist agenda is fundamentally not only anti-child and anti-parent, but anti-God.
Rabbi Noson Shmuel LeiterTHANKS SO MUCH,, IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMESֱ