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Lionel Blue —
British
Clergyman
born on February 06, 1930,
Lionel Blue is a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality... (wikipedia)
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.