“Sexual Perversion” Is Greatest Threat to Israel, Insists Knesset Member

Israel faces terrorism, Iranian missiles, economic crisis – but it all pales in comparison to disobeying God’s Word, says lawmaker.

By Israel Today Staff | | Topics: LGBT
MK Yitzhak Pindrus says disobeying the Word of God is more dangerous than any terrorist organization. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
MK Yitzhak Pindrus says disobeying the Word of God is more dangerous than any terrorist organization. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

With all the threats Israel faces, none is more existentially threatening than sexual perversion, warned Member of Knesset Yitzhak Pindrus (United Torah Judaism) in a television interview this week.

“In my worldview, the most dangerous thing to the State of Israel — more than Islamic State, more than Hezbollah, more than Hamas — is the permissiveness regarding arayot, because that’s what the Torah says,” Pindrus said, using a religious Jewish term for sexual relationships and behavior that is forbidden by the Bible.

“That is why,” he added, “I need to not only prevent the Pride parade, but in general to prevent this movement,” an apparent reference to the LGBT movement that is gaining momentum in Israel.

Pindrus insisted that according to the Bible, Israel should purge the Land of sexual deviation and expel those who practice it, rather than embrace them.

Needless to say, the ultra-Orthodox lawmaker was roundly condemned by his peers for what they called “dangerous homophobia.” His remarks were also held aloft as further evidence that the current government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could usher in an era of “religious dictatorship,” a Halachic state.

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2 responses to ““Sexual Perversion” Is Greatest Threat to Israel, Insists Knesset Member”

  1. psalm100al says:

    Leviticus. 18/22, 25. Thou shalt no lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
    25. And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
    Leviticus. 20/13. If a man also lie with mankind, as he leith with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
    Romans. 1/26-27. Authorised KJV.
    This is part of the reason Almighty God allows the enemy to come in, and not just in Israel.

  2. Sarah Kelly says:

    If we could allow the Scriptures full dictatorship of our lives it would be in stark contrast to the wicked loveless dictatorship of Islam. There is no comparison.
    Isa 45:4  For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
    Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me:

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