The Nation of Israel which claims that the Jews are the chosen people of God yet they advertise that they have the best gay pride parades in the world. With the modern Reformed Judaism, they have no problem with the gay agenda. The other Jews don’t seem to speak against it.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: Leviticus 18: 22-26
“Tel Aviv has become a haven for LGBTQ people from around the Middle East, and hosts one of the world’s largest pride parades every year. The Tel Aviv pride parade is also one of the first in the world to celebrate bisexuality awareness, reflecting the city’s incredibly open-minded nature. Over the past few decades, hundreds of businesses have opened up that are specifically targeted toward the gay community, so no matter what you want to do on your trip, you’ll feel right at home. There are so many amazing places to party that we could never name them all.
A Rainbow Marriage
How did the rainbow become a symbol of gay pride?
Rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker.Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesJune 05, 2012
Streets around the world will be decked in rainbows this week as the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community celebrates LGBT Pride Month. Why is gay pride represented by rainbows?
Closeted gay people historically used bright colors to signal their homosexuality to each other. Oscar Wilde was famous for wearing a trademark green carnation on his lapel, and the flower is thought to have been used by him and other Londoners and Parisians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to quietly express their orientation. Novelist Robert Hitchens described the phenomenon in 1894’s The Green Carnation, and the book in part spurred Wilde’s trial for sodomy. Yellow was used for the same purpose in Australia. According to the book Sunshine and Rainbows, a study of gay culture in Queensland, “If you wanted to attract the attention of the same sex, displaying a pair of bright yellow socks often did the trick.” During the Holocaust, gay men were forced to wear pink triangles, and that symbol has since been reclaimed by the gay community. Purple also became a popular symbol of gay pride in the 1960s and 1970s, when San Franciscans tried to make a symbol of “the Purple Hand” and gay Bostonians put up posters emblazoned with a purple rhino. [Sodomy was against the law in most countries at that time.]
The rainbow, however, wasn’t popularized as an official symbol of the gay community until the 1970s. In 1978, San Francisco artist Gilbert Baker designed what is believed to be the first modern gay pride flag by combining eight stripes, each a different color with its own symbolism: pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for the human spirit. When he wanted to manufacture the flag for sale, he found that hot pink wasn’t as available as the other colors, and so the flag dropped to seven colors. Baker later dropped indigo to maintain an even number, and the flag arrived at its contemporary six colors. When San Francisco gay activists marched to protest the 1978 assassination of city supervisor Harvey Milk, they marched with Baker’s flags.
“From the book, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow by author Constance Cumbey, I [writer of this article] found very little on the reason why the New Age Movement uses the rainbow for this movement and also the LGBT movement.”
On the Board of Directors of Planetary Citizens and his Lorian Association is one of the sponsoring organizations of the Planetary Initiative.
The Planetary Initiative went public in February after an obviously well-financed and prominently supported kick-off press conference and cocktail party at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Episcopal, New York City.
Those inside the Movement communicate between themselves with code words and signals. Some of the code or buzz-words include:
1. Holistic; 2.Transformation; 3.Spaceship Earth; 4. Global village; 5.Interdependent or interdependence; 6. Manifestation or manifest;
7. Initiation or Initiate; 8. Crowded planet; 9. Transcendent; 10. Consciousness-raising; 11. Paradigm or “new paradigm”; 12. Vision
of “new vision”; 13. Global thread; 14. New Consciousness; 15. Planetary vision; 16. Global vision; 17.Transpersonal.
Continuing;
“The New Age Movement has several important symbols for identification and mystical (hypnotic) use. They are not all used simultaneously, but all are in current use within the Movement:
- The Rainbow (also called the Antahkarana or Rain-bow Bridge). This is used as a hypnotic device. They also call it an “International Sign of Peace.” They claim they are building a rainbow bridge between the personality (you) and the over-soul or Great Universal Mind (literally Sanat Kumara,)
Rainbow Serpent
“This article is about an Australian Aboriginal mythological figure. For the aquatic snake found in the south-eastern United States, see Farancia erytrogramma.[Rainbow snake] For the Australian music festival, see Rainbow Serpent Festival. [lots of drugs and sexual misconduct.]
The Rainbow Serpent or Rainbow Snake is a common deity, often a creator god,in the mythology and a common motif in the art of Aboriginal Australia. It is named for the obvious identification between the shape of a rainbow and the shape of a snake. Some scholars believe that the link between snake and rainbow suggests the cycle of the seasons and the importance of water in human life. When the rainbow is seen in the sky, it is said to be the Rainbow Serpent moving from one waterhole to another, and the divine concept explains why some waterholes never dried up when drought struck. There are innumerable names and stories associated with the serpent, all of which communicate the significance and power of this being within Aboriginal traditions. It is viewed as a giver of life, through its association with water, but can be a destructive force if angry. The Rainbow Serpent is one of the most common and well known Aboriginal stories, very important to their society.The Rainbow Serpent is one of the oldest continuing religious beliefs in the world and continues to be a cultural influence today.
The Rainbow Serpent is known by different names by different Aboriginal cultures.
… Characteristics and associations
“Dreamtime (or The Dreaming or Tjukurrpa or Jukurrpa stories tell of the great spirits and totems during creation, in animal and human form that moulded the barren and featureless earth. The Rainbow Serpent came from beneath the ground and created huge ridges, mountains, and gorges as it pushed upward. The Rainbow Serpent is understood to be of immense proportions and inhabits deep permanent waterholes and is in control of life’s most precious resource, water. In some cultures, the Rainbow Serpent is considered to be the ultimate creator of everything in the universe.
“In some cultures, the Rainbow Serpent is male; in others, female; in yet others, the gender is ambiguous or the Rainbow Serpent is hermaphroditic or bisexual, thus an androgynous entity. Some commentators have suggested that the Rainbow Serpent is a phallic symbol, which fits its connection with fertility myths and rituals. When the Serpent is characterized as female or bisexual, it is sometimes depicted with breasts. Other times, the Serpent has no particular gender. The Serpent has also been known to appear as a scorpion or another animal or creature. In some stories, the Serpent is associated with a bat, sometimes called a “flying fox” in Australian English, engaged in a rivalry over a woman. Some scholars have identified other creatures, such as a bird, crocodile, dingo, or lizard, as taking the role of the Serpent in stories. In all cases, these animals are also associated with water. The Rainbow Serpent has also been identified with the bunyip, a fearful, water-hole dwelling creature in Australian mythology.
“The sometimes unpredictable Rainbow Serpent (in contrast to the unyielding sun) replenishes the stores of water, forming gullies and deep channels as the Rainbow Serpent slithers across the landscape. In this belief system, without the Serpent, no rain would fall and the Earth would dry up. In other cultures, the Serpent is said to come to stop the rain. In addition to the identification with the rainbow, the Serpent is also identified with a prismatic halo around the moon that can be regarded as a sign of rain. The Rainbow Serpent is sometimes associated with human blood, especially circulation and the menstrual cycle, and considered a healer. Thunder and lightning are said to stem from when the Rainbow Serpent is angry, and the Serpent can even cause powerful rainstorms and cyclones. Quartz crystal and seashells are also associated with the Rainbow Serpent and are used in rituals to invoke it. The identification with quartz crystal presumably results from its prism-like appearance.
Influence in modern culture
“The Rainbow Serpent, in addition to the continuation of traditional beliefs (which can be the subject of religious controversy), is often referenced in modern culture by providing inspiration for art, film, literature, music, religion, and social movements. [The snake is very common with tattoos] For example, The Rainbow Serpent Festival, an annual music festival in Australia, and the Rainbow Serpent Project, a series of films which document the filmmaker’s journey to various sacred sites around the Earth, are both inspired and named after the creature.
“Furthermore, the Rainbow Serpent is used in art as a subject, even as an assignment in art classes. For children, it is often used to teach colors and symbolism; for older art students, it is used to teach painting techniques. Many Aboriginal Australian artists continue to be inspired by the Rainbow Serpent and use it as a subject in their art.
:”The Rainbow Serpent has also appeared as a character in literature. The Lardil people’s Dreaming story of the Rainbow Serpent was retold in Dick Roughsey‘s award-winning Australian children’s book The Rainbow Serpent; the Rainbow Serpent has also appeared as a character in comic books such as Hellblazer.
The Rainbow Serpent can still serve a religious role today, particularly for Aboriginal Australians, but some Aboriginal Australians who are Christians reject the belief and resent its identification with Aboriginal culture. Some New Age religions and spirituality movements around the world have now also adopted the Rainbow Serpent as an icon.
Similarly, the Rainbow Serpent can inspire social movements. Art historian Georges Petitjean has suggested that the identification of the Rainbow Serpent with various genders and sexualities helps to explain why the rainbow flag has been adopted as the symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
“Politically, for example, the Rainbow Serpent was adopted as the symbol of an anti-uranium mining campaign in Australia, using the notion that the mining would disturb the Serpent and cause it to seek revenge as a metaphor for environmental destruction.
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