The truth is that the toevah bill should remind us about our general outllook on judaism. How many times do our feelings tell us to be overly nice to a female/male when in our mind we might know we are overstepping the boundaries of halacha ? How about having mercy on a young child that is chinuch age and permit them to be mechalel shabbos for a good cause ? The examples are numerous of instances when our good feelings have affect over our mind and lead us to think against torah ch”v. But we jews are trained to be “moach shalit al halev” that our minds should always be in control and decide in favor of hashems will. Getting a closer look at toevah marriage one might see a totally differernt side. I recently heared a commercial on the radio how an indvidual proclaimed in a heart wrenching voice how she and her partner stood together in good and bad for over fifty years and how cruel a world it is not to let them proclaim their marriage ! Her words might have had an effect on the heart but the torah says no !! But it doesn’t end there ! perhaps when we see a “farfrumte” yungerman who doesnt seem to be overly curteous to a woman we will also understand to put our feelings aside for someone who is listeniing to the Shulchan Aruch !! We have to accept torah as a whole without eXceptions !! Otherwise there’s no telling when a new generation will come and say “maybe we should give in to the hearfelt plees of the toevah ppl ” G-d is giving us a wake up call “dont bend the torah to your feelings how valid they may seem” ! Im sure that if we are mesaken what needs to be fixed the bill will never be passed !
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