Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!allegra!jay From: jay@allegra.UUCP (Jay Hyman) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: summary of previous article (apologies if you read it) Message-ID: <4611@allegra.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 17:08:17 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.4611 Posted: Mon Jul 8 17:08:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jul-85 06:54:42 EDT Reply-To: jay@allegra.UUCP (Jay Hyman) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 12 I regret the length of my previous article, and wish to summarize: a) Torah law is based on "consent of the governed", said consent having been given at Mt. Sinai. b) I submit that the real issue is not homosexuality or Nazism, but rather how that "consent", understood by Orthodoxy as applying for all time, relates to those Jews who do not choose to accept the Torah. - Jay