That "thou shalt not lie with man as thou wouldst with woman" bit is from Leviticus, so yes, the orthodoxy does frown upon homosexuality. As such, that a was a perfectly logical place for your song to go, and in fact I would have been confused if there hadn't at least been some token mention of that fact.frankie big face wrote:Yeah, I'm aware that Jews are cool with gays. (My best Jewish friend has a gay rabbi.) But surely orthodox Jews frown upon homosexuality, right? So I went with that.roymond wrote:Frankie Big Face - re: gay Jews...I don't know why I didn't mention this earlier, but this winter and into spring I was the token atheist on the educator selection committee at our synagogue and we just hired by unanimous vote a lesbian rabbi to lead the Hebrew school, after reviewing and interviewing some 16 candidates.
Nonetheless, I've never met a homophobic Jew. In fact, a lesbian* performed my wedding.
*okay, she was bisexual... I'm taking artistic license here.