{"id":105559,"date":"2016-09-05T08:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105559"},"modified":"2023-09-01T02:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T10:24:04","slug":"who-was-the-greatest-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105559","title":{"rendered":"Who Was The Greatest Vice-President?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments<\/a>: * “[Joe] Biden is definitely the greatest VP for saying \u2014 in public, in apparently prepared remarks \u2014 that Jews control the media and are to be credited with leftist advances in this country such as abortion and, especially, homosexual marriage. He, a liberal, meant it as praise, but you know what Jews say: a philosemite is an antisemite who likes Jews. Thanks for speaking the truth, Mr. Veep! No Republican had the guts to do that.”<\/p>\n

Jennifer Epstein reported for Politico May 21, 2013: <\/p>\n

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Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’<\/a><\/p>\n

Vice President Joe Biden spoke at length Tuesday night about the influence of Judaism on the United States, dating back to the country’s founding and to the present day as Jews helped shape views on gay rights.
\n\u201cThe truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that it\u2019s fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you, and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you.\u201d
\n\u201cYou make up 11 percent of the seats in the United States Congress. You make up one-third of all Nobel laureates,\u201d he said. \u201cSo many notions that are embraced by this nation that particularly emanate from over 5,000 years of Jewish history, tradition and culture: independence, individualism, fairness, decency, justice, charity. These are all as you say, as I learned early on as a Catholic being educated by my friends, this tzedakah.\u201d
\n\u201cThe embrace of immigration\u201d is part of that, as is the involvement of Jews in social justice movements.
\n\u201cYou can\u2019t talk about the civil rights movement in this country without talking about Jewish freedom riders and Jack Greenberg,\u201d he said, telling a story about seeing a group of Jewish activists at a segregated movie theater in Delaware. \u201cYou can\u2019t talk about the women\u2019s movement without talking about Betty Friedan\u201d or American advances in science and technology without mentioning Einstein and Carl Sagan, or music and Gershwin, Bob Dylan and \u201cso, so, so many other people.\u201d
\n\u201cI believe what affects the movements in America, what affects our attitudes in America are as much the culture and the arts as anything else,\u201d he said. That\u2019s why he spoke out on gay marriage \u201capparently a little ahead of time.\u201d
\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t anything we legislatively did. It was \u2018Will and Grace,\u2019 it was the social media. Literally. That\u2019s what changed peoples\u2019 attitudes. That\u2019s why I was so certain that the vast majority of people would embrace and rapidly embrace\u201d gay marriage,” Biden said.
\n\u201cThink behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it\u2019s in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is immense. And, I might add, it is all to the good,\u201d he said.
\nJews have also been key to the evolution of American jurisprudence, he continued, namedropping Brandeis, Fortas, Frankfurter, Cardozo, Ginsberg, Breyer, Kagan. \u201cYou literally can\u2019t. You can\u2019t talk about the recognition of \u2026 rights in the Constitution without looking at these incredible jurists that we\u2019ve had.\u201d
\n\u201cJewish heritage has shaped who we are \u2013 all of us, us, me \u2013 as much or more than any other factor in the last 223 years. And that\u2019s a fact,” he said.
\n\u201cWe talk about it in terms of the incredible accomplishments and contributions\u201d of Jews in America,” Biden added, “but it\u2019s deeper \u201cbecause the values, the values are so deep and so engrained in American culture, in our Constitution.\u201d
\n\u201cSo I think you, as usual, underestimate the impact of Jewish heritage. I really mean that. I think you vastly underestimate the impact you\u2019ve had on the development of this nation. We owe you, we owe generations who came before you,” he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Forward reported June 26, 2015<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\nJewish Groups (Mostly) Celebrate SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision<\/a><\/p>\n

Thirteen Jewish groups, among them organizations representing the Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative streams, were among the 25 joining the amicus brief the ADL filed in Obergefell v. Hodges.
\nThe preeminence of Jewish groups among those backing the litigants was not a surprise. In recent decades, much of the Jewish establishment has embraced gay marriage as a right equivalent to the others it has advocated, including racial equality, religious freedoms and rights for women.
\nMultiple groups, in their statements, cited the passage in Genesis that states humans were created \u201cin the image of God,\u201d which has for decades been used by Jewish civil rights groups to explain their activism.
\n\u201cJewish tradition reminds us that we were all created equally, b\u2019tzelem Elohim, in the \u2018image of God\u2019 (Genesis 1:27), and also shows us that marriage is a sacred responsibility, not only between the partners, but also between the couple and the larger community,\u201d the Conservative movement\u2019s Rabbinical Assembly said in a statement.
\nGroups also were looking to next steps in advancing LGBT rights, including in the workplace.
\n\u201cYou can now legally marry in all 50 states and put your wedding on your desk and be fired and have no recourse in the federal courts,\u201d Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who directs the Reform movement\u2019s Religious Action Center, told JTA in an interview.
\n\u201cWe hope this will energize and inspire a bipartisan effort to end discrimination in the work place,\u201d he said, specifying the \u201cT\u201d in LGBT \u2013 the transgendered. \u201cPeople should not be discriminated in the workplace because of expression of gender.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If same-sex marriage is such a Jewish value, how come it was unknown in Jewish life prior to the 1990s? How come the Jewish state of Israel does not celebrate gay marriage? If being transgendered is cool, how come the Torah prohibits a man from wearing a woman’s clothing<\/a>? <\/p>\n

If elites can convince much of the Western world to celebrate same-sex marriage, then is there nothing they can’t do in subverting traditional moral values.<\/p>\n

Does anyone seriously think that if elite Jews were against same-sex marriage, we would have same-sex marriage<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* My favorite factoid about VP Johnson: \u201cAfter his wife\u2019s death, Johnson began an intimate relationship with another family slave. When she left him for another man, Johnson had her picked up and sold at auction.\u201d (Courtesy of Wikipedia.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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