{"id":64149,"date":"2015-02-23T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64149"},"modified":"2015-02-23T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:19:49","slug":"bayit-yehudi-candidate-im-a-proud-homophobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64149","title":{"rendered":"Bayit Yehudi candidate: I&#8217;m a proud homophobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend says: Naftali Bennett is probably pissing his pants out of fear that NY and DC Jewish orgs are going to cancel the US&#8217;s special relationship with Israel over the latter&#8217;s anti-gay positions if his party is brought into a coaliton. I&#8217;m sure Adelson is on the phone right now with the mainstream Israeli parties, insisting that they as well as Bennett will have to move more liberal on &#8220;social issues,&#8221; like he demands of the Republican party. \u202a#\u200econsistency\u202c \u202a#\u200eorganizedJewry\u202c<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-Elections\/Bayit-Yehudi-candidate-Im-a-proud-homophobe-391843\">REPORT<\/a>: Bezalel Smotrich, eighth on the Bayit Yehudi\u2019s list, came under fire for calling LGBT people \u201cabnormal\u201d while on a panel at a school in Givatayim on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery person can decide he doesn\u2019t want to live a normal life; that\u2019s his right,\u201d Smotrich said in a recording from the event played on Army Radio. \u201cHe does not have a right, just because he doesn\u2019t feel comfortable being abnormal, to demand from all of us to destroy the concept of normalcy and say \u2018there\u2019s no such thing as normal anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery person can be abnormal in his house and form whatever family unit he wants. He can\u2019t make demands from me, as the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay people, Smotrich said, \u201cfeel uncomfortable being unusual. It\u2019s not fun, so they come out of the closet and then run and say they\u2019re proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend says: Naftali Bennett is probably pissing his pants out of fear that NY and DC Jewish orgs are going to cancel the US&#8217;s special relationship with Israel over the latter&#8217;s anti-gay positions if his party is brought into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=64149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,37,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homophobia","category-israel","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64150,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149\/revisions\/64150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}