This is it, folks

[rymenhild]

(cross-posted to one_in_a_minyan)

It's official and public: Next week, the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS), the group of rabbis in charge of examining Jewish law on behalf of the centrist Conservative Movement of Judaism, is voting on same-sex marriage and ordination of gay and lesbian rabbis. All of the opinions have been written; there's nothing left for the CJLS to do but vote on which one (or more) of them to accept as binding halacha (law, sort of).

Pray with me that the committee makes its choice with wisdom and mercy. (I'm also praying that the committee legalizes both same-sex marriage and ordination of gay clergy*, but I recognize that even on Livejournal not everyone shares my political opinions.)

*Edit, thanks to naomichana: ...in a halachically viable manner...

Comments

[fire-and-a-rose.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers* Please post with the results, too?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, as soon as I hear about them.

(I've sneakily gotten myself onto the mailing list for the gay advocacy group at the Conservative Jewish rabbinical school, so I ought to hear as soon as there's something to hear.)

[naomichana.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. If I'm going to pray selectively, I'll pray for them to vote in positions which not only legalize marriage and ordination for queer folks, but which also make compelling enough halakhic sense that the opponents of those positions have to stop and think about them a little.

But possibly wisdom and mercy are our best bets. ;)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Amen!

[taylweaver.livejournal.com]

I'll second the need for something that makes halakhically compelling sense.

I think it would really bug me if they made the decision based on flakey halakha - becuase it would be achieving something desireable only at the expense of the traditional values of the Conservative Movement - which are supposed to allow for change - but within a halakhic framework. And once the Conservative Movement loses that, it might as well just merge with the Reform movement.

So yeah, I really hope someone can find some way to make it work within that framework.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I wish the written halachot had been published already. Of course they won't be until at least after the vote.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

*prays*