re: #51 Walter L. Newton

I don’t think so… they have a right to try to force their religious views on social politics… and they also should expect push back from those who don’t agree with them… but in no way would I like to stop or prevent them from trying… go for it…

These are the closing words:

It is so delicate – this issue: How can the Jewish people – people that have been established, founded, created in faith – how can we be opposed to God or to the imposition of so-called traditional values? It is uncomfortable for us to be the ones out there fighting faith.

The fact is we welcome and embrace faith. It is the lifeblood of our country.

What we oppose is the imposing of one belief, one truth, above all others. We believe that we are a country that respects and envelopes people who have faith, a belief of a truth. Everyone is entitled to his or her own truth.

At the end of the day, where are we? I do know that this issue is serious enough for us to develop a strategy, and clearly our first task is to win the support of the American public. We also need to come together with other Jewish organizations to see if we can find a consensus, and to find allies beyond our community.

The challenge is before us. We must now take action to ensure that our pluralistic society continues to maintain the ideal of religious tolerance and freedom enshrined in the constitution and tested, successfully, through the generations as a model for all democracies.

Thank you very much.

Emphasis mine.