The differences between dancing, parading and rioting.

[mizlizz4u]

It's nearly a year since our wedding, and we still get the same reaction when the topic comes up around friends or family:

Your wedding was really something - everyone danced together, it was so fun. Everyone was just so happy, for the same reason, and dancing all together. It really was something.
The reaction is related to the fact that our

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[mizlizz4u]

I want to note that I'm not justifying the charedi position in ANY way at all. It's very simple: it makes most of us around here sick (except of course, its supporters), no matter for or against or undecided on parades.

I just think there are more constructive ways to stick it to a hateful population (and yes, there is feeling that it's a sticking-to at this point)... Ways that would benefit more people ignored by charedi snub-nosedness, while coming out the more righteous members of society, which so much of it is already... Let the rats of the charedi community stay in their holes and the ones who care about humanity - who already do good for communities and already have an inkling of care for Jews of all types - stand side-by-side with LGBT community members at a soup kitchen, a Sderot drive, and have a valuable conversation.

Getting to know people is always better for the long term than a mass showing of solidarity - which yes, is important as well - but now, no one seems to worry about the personal side of dialogue, the dialogue that hits home stronger. Parades are important, but they're not human, and are they so worth it when it's going to cost the dialogue side of things, or have people ignore the dialogue side in favor of the publicity? Wouldn't freedom of speech be more valuable if it was face to face with the person who thinks they hate you?

I think that would spread a stronger message over time - it would seep through the ranks of Jewry, and while extremists stay extremists, the ones who question will get their answers.