Israelis support gay marriage; Knesset not so much

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“As Tel Aviv gears up for an influx of tens of thousands of revelers for Friday’s annual Pride March, a survey commissioned by Channel 10 news and published Monday showed that 58 percent of Israelis are in favor of same-sex marriage.

However, Israeli lawmakers were more reticent in airing their views on the issue, with 47 MKs stating that they are in favor, 12 strongly opposing, and the remainder of the 120 Knesset members refusing to respond.

Only four politicians from the ruling Likud party stated that they were in favor of same-sex marriage, including Amir Ohana, the first openly gay Likud lawmaker, with two MKs saying they were against. According to Channel 10, the remainder of Likud lawmakers did not respond to the survey, including Culture Minister Miri Regev, who in the past has marched in the gay pride parade.

The Kulanu party only had two supporters of same-sex marriage, with the rest abstaining, and the majority of Jewish Home lawmakers did not respond to the poll, with only Uri Ariel stating his opposition. The Shas and United Torah Judaism parties had two objections between them, and the Joint List had two MKs in favor, five opposed and six who didn’t answer. There was no response from lawmakers in the Yisrael Beytenu party.

The left-leaning Labor and Meretz parties both fully came out in support of same-sex marriage. MK Merav Michaeli, who is the co-chair of the gay rights lobby in the Knesset, responded to the results in a statement to Channel 10: “I am happy that I am not surprised by the results — the public has long understood that members of the community deserve equal rights like every other citizen. The State of Israel is the only democratic state in which there is no civil marriage, and it is time for this government to understand that we are in the year 2018.”

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There's a lot of conservative ones in Israel too. I know a refugee family here in Canada that's close to my mom because of honor killing

 

She married a Christian and she was Muslim and some in her family tried to kill her more than once including a bomb in a car

 

[River 128,581]

Kinda obvious when the coalition and the government is a mix of orthodox, the right wing party, settlements orthodox and the Russians party

They only know how to do a pink washing and to use us, this year I heavily promoted among the community in Israel and my friend not to go to the pride and not to be part of this machine that gives money to the a country that shitting on us every single time..

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56 minutes ago, Economy said:

There's a lot of conservative ones in Israel too. I know a refugee family here in Canada that's close to my mom because of honor killing

 

She married a Christian and she was Muslim and some in her family tried to kill her more than once including a bomb in a car

 

Wow imagine finding a bomb in your car

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I’m so proud of israel. Lucky to have a gay friendly country like that in middle east but those downers totally ruins jt

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2 hours ago, Economy said:

There's a lot of conservative ones in Israel too. I know a refugee family here in Canada that's close to my mom because of honor killing

 

She married a Christian and she was Muslim and some in her family tried to kill her more than once including a bomb in a car

 

Oh wow I couldn’t imagine having to randomly found a bomb in my car

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2 hours ago, River said:

Kinda obvious when the coalition and the government is a mix of orthodox, the right wing party, settlements orthodox and the Russians party

They only know how to do a pink washing and to use us, this year I heavily promoted among the community in Israel and my friend not to go to the pride and not to be part of this machine that gives money to the a country that shitting on us every single time..

They’re just tricking at times tbh