How many truly ortho guys would have a tattoo? He clearly donned the kippa just for the photo. Also, the whole point that Open House (parade organizers) constantly makes is that Jerusalem is the capital for ALL Israelis, including secular. So why try to push the religious-homosexual combination?

Dear Ynet, please respect the rights of the majority of Israeli society and the majority of your viewers and remove the disturbing picture from your home page. If i wantes to see a picture of gays showing effection towards each other, there are other web sites available.

I take it that this God, who'll supposedly wreak havoc on the Jews if they accept homosexuality, is the same God who didn't do a damned thing to punish the Nazis?

Welcome to a more tolerant society, Jerusalem. We are all Jews, everyone...and it's about time to put away your prejudice and join the new Jerusalem ...respect and kindness to all!

You are against because for some it's a sin ? Well you have to know that not everybody believes in those writings . Nobody tells you , that you have to behave this way , so do'nt tell others they can't do it . As i wrote already more than once , Yeroushlaim is the Capital of all the Israelis . Religious , secular, and gays [ and all the others also of course ] I will again ask you , you who are anti because of religious reasons , because god dislikes it , : WHERE WAS HE , if he exists , during the Shoa ? Nowhere !!! So do'nt come with religious reasons please . Believe , if you need this to behave correctly , others do not believe , and behave also very well , and maybe better than you .

If I remember in the II world war jews and gays were sent to concentration camps together.They had suffered and died next to each other.Israel should welcome gay tourists and their families.This is what I think and how I feel and i believe those who had died in the Holocaust and their memories deserve respect.

Charles, you wrote more or less the same talkback a year ago! How time flies! But you are right today as you were a year ago!

Sending people proior to the war to warn the Jews to flee Europe, in the actions and fervent prayers of the righteous Gentiles, in the circumstances that led to the division of Germany that caused the same number of people to live behind walls as the Nazis did to us, in the birthing of the State of Israel, in mourning as His people perished, in the curses that still sadly affect many German people to this day. In other words, very present.

does anyone realize that most of the people in the talkbacks that are welcoming the homosexual community to jerusalem are not from jerusalem?

Because God hates gays, as you fundamentalists seem to think, he has obviously sent Olmert to destroy the State of Israel. Sounds as rational and as logical to me as the other ravings in this post. And DragonFly (or was that butterfly?) in Torrence. They were shtupping. Do you really think God would have encorporated an accidental get together behind a waterfall, high above the village in a secret cave just to advertise the biblical scenery? God gave you a brain to think with. Use it!

These are conveniently bluring borders between the "right" to be gay, with the "right" using the public and Jerusalem and religion to give legitimization for their agenda- as if the first is reason enough for the latter Some news guys, do as you wish --- but in private And I'm not sure I'm going to be blogging opinions for this matter a lot either, done it last year Some seculars seem to have zero tolerance for peoples' religious sensivities in this city won't agree to anything like this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-AV_IwXd3I&NR=1

here in our capital, Jerusalem.

Fake models wearling kippot and sporting tatoos??? I am all for the right to assemble peacably and modestly and march in Jerusalem. But there is no need to do it dishonestly. Furthermore, gay or straight, there is no need to make out in public in Jerusalem. That is unnecessary provocation.

Come on! You can do better than that!! Have an ad campaign showing fornication on the Temple Mount!! See how many "kissing yarmules" it takes to form a daisy chain around the Dome of the Rock!! Have transgendered rainbow Pride Paraders rapell naked up and down the "Wailing Wall"! No half-assed measures here, no sir! Show the whole world just how "diversified" you really are!! Yeah, that ought to about do it. That will get everybody's attention in the whole universe. Then let's see who comes to the party.

So there the basic groups that all these TB fall into (OMG hes generalizing!!!!) but the ones that interest (read:disgust) me most are those that would use the jewish history of being prosecuted and oppressed as a reason for embracing publicly applauded gayness, and the second, that believes a democracy inherently supports the public demonstration of gayness. plz make no mistake that you have NO idea what a democracy means from the political sociological aspect and ur constant misuse of the word just makes you seem ignorant and stupid. but back to group one...there is no historical anthropologist that wont agree that one of the deciding factors in the jewish survival through the ages was the ability to hold the identity more important then the self. gayness not only are you acts indecent and the equivalent of MASTURBATION in public but it is a destroyer of out identity and thats not something to laugh at

Perhaps a somewhat unorthodox method of winning back what should be ours, but it would be another proof of the existence of God's truly bizarre sense of humor. Maybe he made gays just for that purpose: to chase away the Arabs. I'm not certain how our fundamentalist crazies would see it, but hey, I think it's not a bad idea, and maybe worth a try! Anyone willing to volunteer?

Good, I hope the Palestinians will join. Maybe you guys will stop fighting each other like idiots lol.

Why Jerusalem? Isn't the intent incitement? It certainly isn't an intention I can respect. If the intent is to prove that the charedi are close minded, go a couple miles over toone of our neighbors, or even an arab village in israel, and see what kind of welcome you get.

This is disgusting. Israel needs Jewish values based on Torah, not pandering after homosexuals' tourist dollars

and having the so called "right" to flaunt your sexuality and enforce your views on the rest of the population. Any flaunting of sexuality - be it gay or straight - is not acceptable, full stop. And you don't necessarly have to be religious to believe this. Any barbarian with no self respect would think otherwise. And using the Holy city of Jerusalem as a means to flaunt sexuality, crosses all red lines. And its usually leftist hypocrites -sensitive to offending muslim religious sensbilities - who are the very first to offend and trample on Jewish religious sensbilities.

They should know there is a limit even to G-od's Patient and G-od forbid who can stands His wrath? Come to yourselves Jews and stop mocking Hashem.

Armageddon is upon us. Allowing homosexuals to march in the streets of the Holiest City on earth is vile & dispicable.

RIGHT ON!!!! YOU TELL 'EM KATHARINE

Two thousand years ago, the Prince of Peace lamented over Jerusalem. Today, Jerusalem, GOD's Holy City on Earth, is once again being contaminated by paganism. Do not forget the GOD of the Jewish Holy Bible. He loves the Jewish people and all humanity but He hates sin. Please spare Jerusalem from such pain. Should this continue, tourists from all over the world who want to visit Israel on a pilgrimage will be turned off by such a scene on GOD's Holy City.

Three cheers for Yfront Ynet. Next week they'll stick a kippa srugah on two horses in the same position. Boring, as usual.

Where is your respect, Why Net?

??? or aphganistan??? Oh yeah, the muslims, they really have the inner wisdom and purity which Moses tried to inspire on us. Back to STONING, back to the good days of Sinai!!! let's purify ourself, with dignity and holiness, like muslims! By the way, any Jewish volunteers for our JHBS (Jewish human bomb squads), preparing for active struggle for dignity and morality?