By the way, the Cairo-born Arafat wasn’t a Palestinian even in the loosest sense of the word. I’d have though that would matter somehow to the scum at Mound o’ Scheiss, always so quick to note how “white-skinned, fair-haired, blue-eyed Brooklyn Jews” (no racism here, none at all) have “no connection to Palestine,” but apparently not. Just kidding, of course: I know very well there’s a cause to be upheld by the anti-Zionists, and logical inconsistency sure isn’t going to interfere with that cause.

Yeah, much as ladies receive unsolicited e-mails talking about enlarging an appendage they lack. Just like I receive Nigerian scams. Sorry, but spam is not an indicator of gays being discriminated against.

“Being attractive to the opposite sex is the basis of a great deal of advertising on tv, the internet and print media. I get bombarded by straight sexuality every day.”

They want money, and they want it from the majority. So, again: Not an anti-gay conspiracy. In a venue where gays are the majority, the advertising would cater to you. That’s basic capitalism.

“It is ubiquitous to the point I stop noticing after awhile.”

Then what are you yakking about?

“No more posts about God’s judgment of what any of us do in our own bedrooms.”

One would think a post about God’s judgment of what you do in your bedroom would be received quite well, as compared with a “Sanhedrin will rise again and then gays will be done the same as those who pronounce God’s four-letter name! HaShem Hu HaElokim!” rant, but I wasn’t counting on the greatness of your sensitivity.

Alright, alright, we’ll play it your way. But I warn you, one whiff of talk about “reaching a peace agreement with the Arabs” that involves the Jewish State getting smaller, and I start spelling Arafat’s name with a different last letter taken from nearer the beginning of the alphabet.

No more posts about God’s judgment of what any of us do in our own bedrooms. This is my last territorial demand!

“Now, does this mean you’ll be marching in next year’s gay pride parade in Tel Aviv next year?”

Isn’t that a leap of logic? The détente applies to this online discussion; in real life, we all do as we please (or, more accurately, we have other considerations and reservations than online).

About the gay pride parade, I’m neither going to march in support nor to protest. Since the gay issue is often compared to that of race, I surmise the solution might be the same: Be neither ashamed nor proud of what you are. Heterosexuals don’t shout their sexuality from their rooftops, so neither should you.

Judaism holds all sexual acts to be a matter firmly hidden behind closed doors—all of them, whether heterosexual or homosexual. Now, not all sexual acts behind closed doors are OK in HaShem’s eyes; but whatever is done behind closed doors is the subject of judgment by HaShem alone. In other words, those gay pride rallies, by getting sexual matters out to the public view, can only backfire, by making it no longer between you and God alone.