Will Benjamin Netanyahu Address An Anti-Obama Pep Rally?
Update 4/20/2012:
. @Gus_802 Israel’s Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon is filling in for Netanyahu#Awakening2012
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 20, 2012
See: Religious Right ‘War’ Room: This Weekend’s Awakening Conference
The Freedom Federation – an anti-Obama amalgam of Religious Right groups, “apostolic” ministries, and the corporate-funded astroturf Americans for Prosperity – is holding its third annual Awakening conference in Orlando, Florida this weekend. Here’s how it describes the event:
Uniting our Voices Around Shared Values: Turning Voices into Votes
A war is raging against our shared values. Our faith and freedom are under attack. Silence in the face of this war is not an option. Decisive action is needed. Join with others who share the core values that make America a great nation. Take a stand for righteousness and justice and be part of a new revolution to take back America. The time has come to turn our voices into votes and to change the course of history.
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Notably for this Obama-bashing group, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending a video presentation; senior Likud official Moshe Ya’alon, Vice Premier, Minister of Strategic Affairs, is also listed as a speaker. Also on the list, some of whom might appear by video: Former GOP presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, and Reps. John Mica and Allen West. West has been warming up for the conference by announcing, McCarthy-style, that dozens of progressive members of the House of Representatives are communists.
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Will Benjamin Netanyahu Address An Anti-Obama Pep Rally?
Submitted by Brian Tashman
Does Prime Minister Netanyahu feel comfortable addressing an election-year anti-Obama pep rally that will feature some of the most extreme and unhinged anti-gay, anti-choice, Christian nationalist activists in America? — Brian Tashman
Mat Staver and Matt Barber says that gays become violent as they get more rights and then say that labeling organization as anti-gay hate groups is just like what the Nazis did to the Jews.
Update 6:
Excerpt from speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011:
And by “democracy,” I don’t just mean elections. I mean freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, the rights for women, for gays, for minorities, for everyone. What the people of Israel want — is for the people of the Middle East to have what you have in America, what we have in Israel — democracy. — Benjamin Netanyahu
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Israel are considered the most developed in the Middle East. In November 2005, a groundbreaking court decision in Israel ruled that a lesbian spouse could officially adopt a child born to her current partner by artificial insemination from an anonymous sperm donor; this ruling came despite protests by the minority Orthodox Jewish parliamentary parties. Common law marriage which grants most of the official marriage rights to the spouse has been achieved, but full official same-sex marriage has not yet been sanctioned. However, same-sex marriages performed elsewhere are recognized.
Israel also has one of the highest percentages of support for same-sex marriage in the world, with 61% of Israelis supporting civil marriage for same-sex couples.