I have known of Chaim Levin for about a year now. He is doing very important work and I have the utmost respect for him. It was very recently that I ruminated over how to keep my children safe from child predators. As I told Chaim on his Facebook page this evening, I admire him for his kind, level-headed, peaceful demeanor. No one likes an angry activist (tendencies which I have and need to work on, admittedly), but Chaim is such a wonderful orator and writer. I know he will succeed no matter what the outcome. He's a real mentsch.
I do worry about how the world will view Orthodox Jews as a result of this press. Naturally, I believe this therapy is a terrible thing and that this awful experience should be given justice. Yet there are those folks who jump at every opportunity to put down Jews, especially the Orthodox ones. Don't you have a cousin who thinks that all Orthodox Jews are smelly swindlers who force their wives to shave their heads? Evidence of forcing young adults to try to change their gay orientation with quackery therapy doesn't look good. But that doesn't mean it should be kept locked up in a box. Quite the contrary, as Chaim and his co-plaintiffs are proving.
My hope is that this will ultimately help strengthen the Jewish community. And that those
As I mentioned in the past, it is the Golden Age of Miracles, right?
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