Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a strong opponent
of gay rights, has blamed gay marriage for the kidnapping and murder
of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, progressive
blog ThinkProgress.org reported.
According to reports, Kletzky
disappeared on July 11 walking from school to meet his parents.
Police have charged a local supply store clerk, Levi Aron, with the
abduction and murder of the boy. Parts of the boy's remains were
found in a refrigerator-freezer in Aron's apartment.
In a 10-minute video posted on
YouTube.com, Levin links support for gay marriage to the boy's
killing.
“Why was this [death of Kletzky]
allowed to happen? Let’s think about it. If we go back to the
cause, the effect was he was the victim, but the cause was a Jew
[Yiddish] that the evil will come to destroy you within your midst. …
For too long we have been turning our cheek, we have been turning
away and ignoring the agenda of the descendants of Amalek [evil] —
first they [gay men and women] wanted rights, then they wanted
adoption, they wanted special protections, and ultimately they wanted
marriage — and we all know that we did precious little. If those
three or fourth thousand people [who searched for the boy when we
went missing], at the direction of the greater Israel and their
leaders and their common sense, would have come out, maybe, against
the marriage, against this final nail in the coffin of morality …
maybe we wouldn’t have had to had this episode of Amalek [evil]
replay itself. This is a time for introspection.”
“This came in the very aftermath of
the marriage bill, my dear friends, and not doing anything,” he
added. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.)
Levin is expected to participate in the
National Organization for Marriage's (NOM) July
24 4-city demonstration in protest of the first gay marriages in New
York.