Equality in Conservative Judaism

Last week, Conservative Judaism authorized a law opinion that permits gay men and women to become Rabbis - and permits Rabbis to perform "commitment ceremonies" for gay couples. As one can imagine, this has been a very hot issue for many years. There's been much written about this all over the Jewish press and Jewish blogs - and there's little that I can add.

In short, I'll say that I view this as immensely positive.

Some reading on the topic:

• Rabbi Judith Hauptman's great op-ed asks the question "May rabbis alter Torah?"
• Rabbi Jason Miller has an excellent series of blog posts
• Rabbi Gerald Zelizer's piece from USA Today
  
• Rabbi Daniel Brenner's "Oy Vey the Rabbi is Gay" children's story
• Rabbi Steve Greenberg's book Wrestling with God and Men
• The documentary Trembling Before G!d
• Shabot 6000's take
  

Some more background about what happened last week:

• A history of the issue within Conservative Judaism
• The modern Halachik process in Conservative Judaism
• The story in the Jewish Week
  

Some resources:

• http://keshetjts.org/
• http://glbtjews.org/
• http://cbst.org/
• http://www.OrthoGays.com
  

Now if only the Boy Scouts would stop discriminating against gays!