Reply To: Should We Look The Other Way?

Because when you really get down to the nuts and bolts of it, toevah is not that much different than eating chometz on pesach? Yet we don’t go running and screaming when a candidiate does that.

you’re making my point about society as a whole influencing us. yes homosexuality is worse. to the best of my knowledge the torah does not refer to chometz on pesach as an abomination.

I tell myself and my family, we are us (frum, bnei torah) and they are not. So it matter not one wit what the candidate does on his personal time, or who he associates with (unless its fringe nuts that pose a threat to my safety, like neo-nazis, which is not the case here).

as sheltered as you think you and your children are you are deluding yourself and shortchanging them. you can tell yourself all you want that society as a whole does not affect you one iota, but it is simply not true as i indicated above.

Will this person run a good govt? Give him the job. Period. I don’t have to advertise who I voted for, and I certainly don’t need to hold press conferences. Let me hear what the positions are in the issues that matter to the city, and I’ll make a choice.

please leave rabbi levin out of this discussion. your definition of a good government apparently consists of social services and nothing else. this is precisely the issue i am raising.

@squeak thank you this has bothered me for a very very long time.