Rabbi or Rabbid?

Ok, now Im sure the world I live in is moving backwards to the middle ages rather than forwards towards a bright and enlightened furtue.

Aryeh Ralbag, chief rabbi for Amsterdam (although he lives in New York I believe) has gone of his rocker. First he signs a document declaring homosexuality a disease which needs to be cured (hang on, I thought this kind of garbage had disappeared from western society quite a while ago. I think it was together with the use of leaches as a surgical technique or somewhere thereabouts...), than, when the Amsterdam Jewish community tells him where to stuff it, he goes on a "oh poor me" trip, claiming he cant come to Amsterdam cause he wouldnt be safe (dramaqueen! What, do you think there are now legions of "gay gunman" waiting for you here? Please, you vastly overrate your own importance, most people simply dont care about the next fool who spouts religious doctrine bereft of any compassion or humanity), than The Committee for the Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality (what?? sounds like either a bunch of closet homos or people completely unqualified to rule about homosexuality to me) likens the Amsterdam reaction to fascism. Fascism?? For objecting to call a significant part of the population sick just cause they dont love according to your narrow-minded worldview?
This kind of statements belittles the suffering of your fellow Jews who actually suffered from fascism! Shame on you!

Now I dont know alot about either Jews and Judaism or about homosexuality, but the only fascism Im seeing here is a rightwing religious nutbag who can shake hands with some of the most extreme islamist (or other) crazies around.

Who the hell does he think he is?

First he goes and calls a large part of the population "sick" (despite the fact that these kinds of sentiments have in the past frequently led to discrimination, pogroms and persecution, and have NEVER led to anything positive or uplifting), claiming he can say what he wants to under the first amendment. Than, when the community he claims to represent (from a few thousand miles away) disagrees with his medieval worldview and relieves him of his position, he (ignoring the same freedom of speech he invoked earlier) calls this reaction fascist.

Dear Chief Rabbi Ralbag / other members of the "Committee for the Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality". Your position is an archaic remnant of a worldview which has in the past led to suffering beyond measure. This type of discriminatory, stigmatising garbage has been abused by Adolf Hitler as well as many many other despots, tyrants and mass murderers.
Its shameful to see that representatives of an old and proud people have sunk so low, that they feel they need to invoke associations with the worst horror ever visited on humans by other humans. Your fellow Jews who were massacred in the holocaust, as well as the homosexuals who were gassed beside them by real fascists should be spinning in their grave.

For now please stay away from Holland. Its a nice country, and we can do without your breed of religious extremism, scaremongering and intolerance. We've built up a nice country here where people (mostly) live together in harmony, and we dont need you to put people down or give intolerant idiots excuses to commit atrocities.

As my grandmother (a very wise woman) used to say:

"If you cant say anything nice, please dont speak at all"


Ps. Im not Gay, Im not Jewish, Im not Muslim, I dont hate Israel (I dont agree with Israelly policy either, but thats a different discussion), I dont hate any other religious groups and I dont have any personal vendettas against anything, except perhaps against extremists who preach only hate and intolerance.