Orthodox Jewish Group Hires Mexican Laborers to Protest NYC Gay Pride Parade Jameson Parker - Addicting Info
go to original June 30, 2015

Paid protesters, some of them from Mexico, held up signs on behalf of a Jewish group that opposes same-sex marriage. (James Estrin/The New York Times)

Anti-gay Christian organizations like the Family Research Council have gotten the lion’s share of the mockery in their ongoing meltdown over the national recognition of gay marriage; however, an orthodox Jewish group may have just taken the cake.

In the middle of New York’s Gay Pride Parade, a massive celebration of gay rights and the recent victory at the Supreme Court, a group of Hispanic men held up signs saying things like “G-D created Adam and Eve NOT Adam and Steve” and “Judaism prohibits homosexuality.” There was only one problem: These men weren’t Jewish, they were Mexican day laborers hired by the orthodox Jewish group calling itself the “Jewish Political Action Committee” to protest gay rights so impressionable Jewish people wouldn’t have to.

Heshie Freed, a member of the political action committee, an Orthodox Jewish group based in Brooklyn, said that the men were supplementary troops, filling in for the Jewish students who would normally be called upon to demonstrate.

Adding to the insanity of the situation, in a picture taken by New York Times reporter James Estrin (above), the handful of paid protesters are wearing “fringed prayer garment[s] known as the tzitzit.” Some wore traditional orthodox Jewish hats. None were actually Jewish.

As to the claim that these men were hired so that Jewish students didn’t have to see gay people, that seems likely to be only part of the reason JPAC hired disinterested laborers to stand in their place. This isn’t the first conservative group to struggle to fill out its numbers when launching a protest, and recently the problem has gotten much more glaringly obvious.

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