Israeli rabbis say ‘ gays are disabled people’

Two prominent Israeli rabbis described gays and lesbians as “disabled people” and are in an urgent need to psychological treatment to be straight.

Chief Israeli Jewish Rabbi of Ramat Gan Yaakov Ariel, one of the leaders of Religious Zionism, stated that the members of the gay and lesbian community are “disabled people suffering from a real problem that must be solved with psychological and pharmacological treatments.”

He added: “Our job is to strengthen the family. A normative family is a father and a mother and children. A non-normative family is not an ordered and proper family. It has psychological and other problems.”

According to him, pride in one’s sexual orientation is unusual and presenting it as “progressive” causes many young persons to choose not to identify as straight.

“Young boys going through puberty who are looking for their identity—instead of helping them to find their natural and normative identity, they push them to go in the opposite direction and ruin their lives.

“We must do everything to help them… There are medications, psychological treatment, and ways like this and others, medical or spiritual or explanatory actions.”

He also said: “Being proud of this and receiving public legitimacy?! This is creating the problem! Have mercy on them. There is no place for Pride parades. What are they proud of? We need to find the proper and true way to deal with this issue properly.

“When a person does not have a natural connection to the opposite sex, this is a disability. Let’s make this clear. He cannot establish a normative family. So the disabled need treatment, need help—all of this is correct, but pride? What is the pride of the disabled? What’s there to be proud of?”

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