The Day That Shall Live in Infamy

 

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The Day That Shall Live in Infamy: 

By Binyomin Feinberg

Rosh Chodesh Shvat, 5781 °° January 14, '21 °°  Parshas Va'Eira

Unfortunately, we have bad news to report in NJ regarding recently debated legislation advancing LGBT exploitation in public schools and in healthcare facilities (see last week's post on Jersey Conservative, or the NJ Jewish Link (letters), or http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2021/01/saving-public-school-kids-matters.html).  On Monday January 11, NJ's infamous Public School indoctrination bill (A4454) passed the Assembly, 46 to 29, generally along party lines, with four not voting altogether, including Passaic Assemblyman Gary Schaer. The LGBT long-term healthcare facilities bill also passed - and with almost no opposition.  It's noteworthy that there was a surprise "No" vote on the education bill - by Jamal Holly of Elizabeth. In marked contrast to the opposition of that well-know leftwing Assemblyman, Assemblyman Gary Schaer - often caught actively voting on the wrong side of moral issues - opted for passivity this time. By not voting, NJs "only Orthodox Assemblyman" willingly enabled this antireligious LGBT indoctrination to pass without a multicultural show of opposition from within the Democratic Party.  Does Schaer - now exposed as a fraudulent "Jewish advocate" by Assemblyman Holly - ever lose an opportunity to lose an opportunity?

MOREOVER, THE FACT THAT SCHAER'S FELLOW PASSAIC ASSEMBLYMAN CALABRESE ACTIVELY VOTED FOR NOT JUST ONE BUT BOTH OF THOSE ABUSIVE BILLS EXPOSES WHAT SCHAER'S OWN INACTION DOESN'T SHOW: SCHAER DIDN'T EVEN HOLD BACK HIS OWN FELLOW ASSEMBLYMAN FROM ACTIVELY ADVANCING THESE INHERENTLY ANTIRELIGIOUS BILLS, EVEN BEHIND THE SCENES.

On the other hand, we must HEARTILY commend Assemblyman Parker Space for taking a heroic stand against the healthcare facilities perpetration legislation. FOR THOSE OF US WHO UNFORTUNATELY FAIL TO LEARN FROM AVROHOM AVINU, PINCHOS, AND MANY OTHER TORAH ROLE MODELS, LEHAVDIL ALFEI HAVDOLOS, his principled stand - against the transgenderization of healthcare facilities in NJ - reminds us of what we must demand of ourselves, and then of our wayward legislators. And if the desires of the legislators - and their enabling ethically challenged askonim - to swap fighting government sanctioned brutality for procurement of government largesse, then we must choose: grow a spine or forgoe the sho'chad (bribery). Once government benefits serve to enable our silence in the face of victimization of the innocent, they  cease to be benefits (IF they ever were), and must be identified as such.

Now, before rushing to praise the Republicans for their opposition to the "educational" indoctrination bill, realize the import of their failure to oppose the abusive healthcare facilities bill. Also consider that, prior to the onset of the Trump Era, it would have been almost unthinkable - EVEN for leftist Democrats - to openly vote for an LGBT propaganda bill for kindergarteners. Realize just how far we've fallen.

Additionally, even this showing by Republican comes only after vigorous campaigning by both Orthodox and non-Jewish activists. And, even after all of that, the GOP still split their gambit by caving on the Healthcare facilities bill, thereby ensuring an easy, "no-cost" victory for the opposition.

We somehow doubt that the Republicans' virtual foray into selective heroism would have played better if they wouldn't be facing an election season later this very year. 

What does this all tell us about ourselves? The blatant shortfalls of our defaulting representatives reflect our own. Do we not have enough communal will, acumen and resources to muster a serious campaign to save our own elderly from legislation that makes Sodom just a local trip? Even from a purely "pragmatic" perspective (as some askonim relish posturing), we'll wind up expending far, far more resources dealing with the fallout of this antireligious edict than we would have spent on an intelligent, broad-based campaign against the bill. 

Where are the self advertising askonim busy fundraising as if they're taking care of the tzibbur, and not just themselves?  Have we heard the Call of Corona to mend our ways? There's still time; but, given recently developing stories, perhaps not much. THE ONGOING CHILLUL HASHEM INVOLVED IN ABANDONING THE WAR FOR INNOCENT SOULS ENDANGERS OUR COMMUNITY.

 

The Orthodox public DESERVES more activists WHO TREAT THE ORTHODOX COMMUNITY WITH THE DIGNITY THAT THE COMMUNITY DESERVES. WE NEED TO BE ALERTED TO HELP SAVE OTHERS, EVEN IF THEY AREN'T WITHIN OUR OWN IMMEDIATE CIRCLES. THE TZIBBUR WILL RISE TO THE CHALLENGES OF OUR GENERATION. SELF SERVERS: MOVE ASIDE; LET MY PEOPLE GROW.

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