{"id":1456,"date":"2005-04-04T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T08:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/04\/see-see-people-of-different-faiths-can-get-along\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T08:18:19","slug":"see-see-people-of-different-faiths-can-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"See? See? People of different faiths CAN get along!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/31\/international\/worldspecial\/31gay.html?ex=1269925200&#038;en=194620d9287464bc&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">The <em>New York Times <\/em>reports<\/a> that &#8220;major leaders of the three faiths &#8211; Christianity, Judaism and Islam &#8211; are making a rare show of unity to try to stop&#8221; a gay pride festival scheduled to take place this August in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable,&#8221; Shlomo Amar, Israel&#8217;s Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel&#8217;s two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. &#8220;It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: &#8220;We can&#8217;t permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Warms my heart. Or maybe my temper. Something&#8217;s warmed up, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/finnswake.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/ecumenical-council.html\">Finnigans Wake<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that &#8220;major leaders of the three faiths &#8211; Christianity, Judaism and Islam &#8211; are making a rare show of unity to try to stop&#8221; a gay pride festival scheduled to take place this August in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobic-zaninessmore-lgbtq-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}