Jerusalem's gay parade is go - no comments

No posts for ages (again), but I have been busy - job hunting, plus adding a search tool to this site (search across all 88 feeds instantly - more of this later).

Anyway, I know it's a bit cheap to post links to BBC articles seeing as everyone looks there already, but it seems that a court in Jerusalem has overturned a ban on a gay parade imposed by the city council, arguing that the mayor could not act with prejudice against a group of people because he disagreed with their views. Which is a good and encouraging step.

It's about this point that some bloggers/commenters would be questioning whether such a thing would be allowed in a city under Palestinian jurisdiction. I guess not, but I'm not going to push that point (Update: Several other bloggers have subsequently made exactly this point). In fact, religious leaders of the three 'major faiths' had earlier urged the banning of all such gay festivals (the weather forecast is for divine wrath). It's one in the eye for those people who see Israel as a militarised Crusader state, under the control of religious zealots, though of course it'll confirm the prejudices of those others who see it as an enclave of European permissiveness in a region that is 'rightfully' Arab.

Ah, what fun.