The official X account of Israel, which is run by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, is promoting an upcoming four-day LGBTQ+ pride festival in June at the Dead Sea. They are doing this on the traditional location of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19:24-29).
Aaron Cohen, the main producer and initiator of the event, told the outlet that the scale of the festival is unprecedented,
"This is not just another festival, it's the biggest thing we've done here," he said.
He misspelled ‘dumbest.’
The event boasts four days of nonstop celebration, community, and queer connection in the same neighborhood traditionally known as Sodom and Gomorrah. The plan: turn a chunk of Judean Desert into a 24/7 pop-up city with hotels, beaches, and a main stage pumping Israeli talent round the clock.
Family zones for the kids, workshops, the whole package. Producer Aaron Cohen basically said they’re going full mad-scientist: “We bought entire hotels and built a city in the desert. It’s not a festival, it’s an experience.”
Yeah, nothing says family values like exposing innocent children to something that God calls an abomination (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13).
To the Jewish Derangement Syndrome crowd (you know who you are), this event is a private initiative led by producer Aaron Cohen and his team — not a government-funded or state-run event like some official national project. Just as San Francisco's awful pride stuff doesn't represent all of America, this doesn't speak for every Israeli, especially the more religious ones—including over 820 Seventh-day Adventists in Israel. So, please don’t turn this thread into another JDS rant.
That said, the official Israeli government account did promote it, and shame on them.
The optics, as the more biblically faithful among us have noted, are… impressive. Leviticus 18 and 20 are still clear, using that sturdy old Hebrew word to'evah — abomination — with the clarion bluntness of an Old Testament prophet who hadn’t yet received sensitivity training. And Romans 1 adds its own New Testament clarity for those keeping score at home (Romans 1:26-27).
I wonder if Israel’s trying to spur tourism while dodging rockets. Because nothing says “come visit!” like throwing the gayest party in history on the ashes of divine fire-and-brimstone real estate.
Abominable.
I hope they repent (2 Peter 3:9).
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“For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting” (Romans 1:25-28).