Change is Traditional

More profound words were never spoken. Fifty years from now, our grandchildren will look back on the to-do about gay rights and wonder what all the fuss was about. For now, however, every positive step, no matter how small, is a giant leap for mankind. Conservative Judaism may be about to make one of those leaps.

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

And, bottom line, the change will happen eventually anyway:

Many students at the seminary say they find the gay ban offensive and would welcome a change, said Daniel Klein, a rabbinical student who helps lead Keshet, a gay rights group on campus. "It's part of the tradition to change, so we're entirely within tradition," he said. Mr. Klein said that even if the law committee did not lift the ban this week, change would come eventually.

"Imagine what will happen 10 years from now when some of my colleagues are on the law committee, when people from my generation are on the law committee," he said. "It's not going to be a close vote."

This last point is key. The right wing knows that change is coming...that's why they want to enshrine hate in the constitution.

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