UK's Chief Sephardic Rabbi Steps Down Over Pro-Gay Comments

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Dweck said that society was “moving in the right direction,” and that this had allowed fathers to show more affection to their sons without feeling that it was socially unacceptable.

However, following a backlash from leaders in Israel and the UK, he announced he had “stepped aside from the day-to-day activity,” according to the Jewish News.

The influential Orthodox Rabbi Shraga Feivel Zimmerman said Dweck was “not fit to serve as a rabbi”.

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis called on his colleagues to cease the attacks on Dweck, which he said had been “deeply divisive and damaging” for the community.

The rabbi said in his original lecture that though there was “no way” of avoiding the Torah’s ban on gay sex, there was nothing forbidding a “disposition” or “attraction” between men.

The increasing tolerance of homosexuality in society was tackling the taboo of male affection which had stopped fathers from showing love for their sons, he added.
“I genuinely believe that the entire revolution of feminism and even homosexuality in our society…is a fantastic development for humanity.

“You know what homosexuality in society has done? It has forced us to look at how we deal with love between people of the same sex,” he added.

“And it has reduced the taboo of my children, of me, of my grandchildren being able to love another human being, same-sex, genuinely – to show affection to someone else, to hug and kiss someone else, to genuinely express love without worry of being seen as deviant and problematic.”

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