AviraDeArah: I agree that the extreme left’s influence on the democratic party with the celebration/promotion of transgenders, for example, is problematic. But this is why I would be open to vote for a democrate as a frum Jew:
I believe frum political conservatives aren’t in touch with how awful things were for our grandparents in the old world. Every country where a religious group imposes idealogy on others lacks stability. Think Syria, Iraq, Iran. And demanding US keeps the 7 Noahhide laws, for example, leads to the same type of prosecution of others that we sought to escape from. Of course there are laws that must be kept universally, and there’s always going to be a tension as to how to where and how to draw the line. I’d rather live with that imperfection, knowing that the tides are less likely to turn against us, lo aleinu.
There have always been ‘alternative lifestyles.’ I don’t condone this and feel uncomfortable that politicians and media are trying to push this on us. But what caused all this? Republicans trying to motivate their base through fear. It started when they started passing laws against trans using bathrooms. How would anybody ever even know if a boy who looks exactly like a girl is sitting in a stall in the girls’ bathroom? Err on the side of live and if you care so much about these people, develop relationships with them and try to show them the way. I do miss the age of centrist democrats. But republicans clobbering others over the head with ideaology only incites (and someties creates) the “other side.”
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