Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. Republican Indiana State Rep. Phillip Hinkle, accused of hiring an 18-year-old male prostitute on Craigslist, is refusing calls for his resignation. Hinkle admits to hiring the teen for something but insists he isn’t gay and says he doesn’t know for what. Read the full story from the Indianapolis Star.
2. It was just a matter of time, although we were hoping it would be Red Oak’s Cindy Jacobs so we’d have a good strong local angle. But New York City’s Rabbi Yehuda Levin beat Jacobs to the punch in blaming Tuesday’s earthquake on the gays. Watch video of Levin’s comments below. Here’s a partial transcript via Joe.My.God.: “One of the reasons that God brings earthquakes to the world is because of the transgression of homosexuality. The Talmud states, ‘You have shaken your male member in a place where it doesn’t belong. I too, will shake the earth.'”
3. Two recent studies indicate that bisexual man are, in fact, sexually aroused by both men and women, The New York Times reports. “It’s great that they’ve come out with affirmation that bisexuality exists,” said one bisexual activist. “Having said that, they’re proving what we in the community already know. It’s insulting. I think it’s unfortunate that anyone doubts an individual who says, ‘This is what I am and who I am.’”
1. Good riddance
2. What an idiot
3. Duh!!!
Speaking on behalf of Congregation Beth El Binah, this self-proclaimed rabbi is an extremist, a nut job and way out of the mainstream, even for Orthodox Judaism. Israeli law recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative rabbis perform same-sex weddings. So on behalf of Jews everywhere, Yahuda, shut the f up. Rabbi my ass.
Thank you, David, for your Hebrew eloquence 🙂
Is it racist for me to say “Rabbi Please!”? 🙂
Tish, I think our rabbi would say that I couldn’t print his comments. The rest of us just think this schmuck is a g-ddamn bigoted moron who represents no one but himself and a small band of narrow-minded followers.
But let me use HIS logic for a minute. The quake was centered in Virginia, which does NOT have marriage equality. Maybe God is sending THAT state the message.
……kinda like a Hebrew Bachmann!
1. I hate it when I hire a hooker and then forget what I hired them for.
…if I had a dollar for everytime I’ve shaken my”member” somewhere it didn’t belong…I’d be rich!