Maybe you missed the part where Tikkun Community was part of the organizing process leading up to Feb 16? Or that part about how there are four coalitions, and ANSWER was merely ONE among them and not even the group that made the call for the action to begin with?
don't even bother trying to suggest i'm backing lerner's charge of anti-semitism, either. rejecting this reasoning, below, has nothing to do with that issue, or even what I think about ANSWER. I'm just deeply suspicious. these are some lengths yer goin' to ma'am. have you been visiting a hypnotherapist for augmentation therapy? Sharp Labs? them thar e-mail that say it'll grow 7 feet are uh stretching da troot. Had to break that to my son the other day too--about growing taller, that is. :)
Kelley
>The reason I make the public repudiation of the anti-Semitism charge the
>condition for reconciliation is that, if Lerner in fact believes that
>ANSWER is full of anti-Semites and its tactical allies are accomplices in
>anti-Semitism, he, as a self-respecting Jew, has _no_ business trying to
>get himself invited to become a featured speaker. Indeed, he, as a Jewish
>public figure, has _a moral obligation_ to _refuse_ to associate himself
>with such a coalition of coalitions in any way