"Orthodox" Assemblymen Vote To Ban Helping People Overcome Unwanted Same Sex Attraction

Four "Orthodox" Assemblymen Voted to ban helping people try to overcome their same sex attraction, they furthermore voted that there is no problem with being a homosexual!

a.  Being  lesbian,  gay,  bisexual  or  transgender is not a disease, disorder, illness, deficiency, or shortcoming.  The  major  professional associations  of  mental  health  practitioners  and  researchers in the United States have recognized this fact for nearly 40 years. (bill)

Call them to protest their evil votes

Michael Simanowitz (718)-969-1508
Phillip Goldfeder (718)-945-9550
David Weprin (718)-805-2381
Shelly Silver (212)-312-1420

Remember that many rabbis (from all circles) stated there was a obligation for those who have a desire for homosexuality, to go for therapy to get help

Listen to Rav Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik's strong opposition to the liberals stopping a therapist from helping a person overcome homosexuality.














Here are examples of some of the things they want to ban for being "traumatic" !



“Then modern Orthodox high schools were sending their kids to a conversion therapy program. The school psychologist would try to change them from being gay to straight. Their methods included having the kid repeating the verse in the Bible over and over again for 45 minutes. Looking at pictures of AIDS victims and colorectal cancer victims and say ‘this is what comes of homosexual sex.’ Kids were being "traumatized". We haven’t heard that lately. Now the complaints kids have is that they don’t hear anybody from the administration using the word ‘gay’, and worry about what would happen if they come out. "Orthodox" high schools are starting to think proactively about it,” says Levovitz. “We’re heading in the "right" direction.”







(Haaretz)






For the remainder of this post all those politicians who acted problematically that have a decent sized Orthodox population in their district will be highlighted yellow,

those that have a sizable Orthodox community will be highlighted green, 
"Orthodox" politicians will be highlighted blue. 





SPONSOR    Glick (MS)

COSPNSR    Titone, Jaffee, O'Donnell, Barrett, Roberts, Skoufis, Zebrowski,
           Schimel, Rosenthal, Kavanagh, Abinanti, Arroyo, Buchwald, Bronson,
           Magnarelli, Weprin, Linares

MLTSPNSR   Cook, Hevesi, Lavine, Ryan, Stirpe, Thiele







Vote Count in the Assembly



A04958 Votes:



BILL:A04958 DATE:04/29/2015MOTION: YEA/NAY:111/26

Abbate
Y
Clark
ER
Gantt
Y
Kim
Y
Morelle
Y
Rivera
Y
Stec
NO
Abinant
Y
Colton
Y
Garbari
Y
Kolb
NO
Mosley
Y
Roberts
Y
Steck
Y
Arroyo
ER
Cook
Y
Giglio
ER
Lalor
NO
Moya
Y
Robinso
Y
Stirpe
Y
Aubry
Y
Corwin
Y
Gjonaj
Y
Lavine
Y
Murray
NO
Rodrigu
Y
Tedisco
NO
Barclay
Y
Crespo
Y
Glick
Y
Lawrenc
NO
Nojay
NO
Rosenthal
Y
Tenney
ER
Barrett
Y
Crouch
Y
Goldfeder
Y
Lentol
Y
Nolan
Y
Rozic
Y
Thiele
Y
Barron
Y
Curran
Y
Goodell
NO
Lifton
Y
Oaks
NO
Russell
Y
Titone
Y
Benedet
Y
Cusick
Y
Gottfri
Y
Linares
Y
O'Donne
ER
Ryan
Y
Titus
Y
Bichotte
Y
Cymbrowitz
Y
Graf
NO
Lopez
NO
Ortiz
Y
Saladin
Y
Walker
Y
Blake
Y
Davila
Y
Gunther
Y
Lupardo
Y
Otis
Y
Santaba
Y
Walter
Y
Blanken
NO
DenDekk
Y
Hawley
NO
Lupinac
Y
Palmesa
NO
Scarbor
AB
Weinstein
Y
Borelli
Y
Dilan
Y
Hevesi
Y
Magee
Y
Palumbo
Y
Schimel
Y
Weprin
Y
Brabene
NO
Dinowitz
Y
Hikind
ER
Magnare
Y
Paulin
Y
Schimmi
NO
Woerner
Y
Braunst
Y
DiPietr
ER
Hooper
Y
Malliot
Y
Peoples
Y
Seawrig
Y
Wozniak
NO
Brennan
Y
Duprey
Y
Jaffee
Y
Markey
ER
Perry
Y
Sepulve
Y
Wright
Y
Brindis
Y
Englebr
Y
Jean-Pi
Y
Mayer
Y
Persaud
Y
Silver
Y
Zebrowski
Y
Bronson
Y
Fahy
Y
Johns
NO
McDonal
Y
Pichard
Y
Simanowits
Y
Mr Spkr
Y
Brook-Kr
Y
Farrell
Y
Joyner
Y
McDonou
NO
Pretlow
Y
Simon
Y

Buchwald
Y
Finch
Y
Kaminsky
Y
McKevit
NO
Quart
Y
Simotas
Y

Butler
NO
Fitzpat
NO
Katz
ER
McLaugh
ER
Ra
NO
Skartad
Y

Cahill
Y
Friend
NO
Kavanag
Y
Miller
Y
Raia
Y
Skoufis
Y

Ceretto
NO
Galef
Y
Kearns
NO
Montesa
ER
Ramos
Y
Solages
Y
















As we can see there is no chazaka that a "Orthodox" Politician is kosher





The Senate sponsors of the bill 



SPONSOR    HOYLMAN

COSPNSR    GIANARIS, AVELLA, BOYLE, BRESLIN, CARLUCCI, DILAN, ESPAILLAT,
           HAMILTON, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, LATIMER, MARTINS,
           MONTGOMERY, PANEPINTO, PARKER, PERALTA, PERKINS, RIVERA, SAVINO,
           SERRANO, SQUADRON, STAVISKY, VALESKY






 

Everybody should call up their state senators, urging them to do whatever they can to prevent this evil bill from passing the Senate and becoming law!

Senator Simcha Felder (718)253-2015 is one of the most influential members in the senate: Everyone should call him, urging him to use his influence to help stop this evil bill from ever becoming law!

David Greenfield Votes For Resolution In Favor Of Abortion On Demand!

On June 12th The City Council voted to pass a resolution urging Albany to pass the so called "Women’s Equality Act".  The 10th plank of the "Women’s Equality Act" was one of the most extreme "abortion on demand" laws ever.  David Greenfield along with the entire City Council voted for the abortion on demand bill, except for 7 people (4 voted against and 3 abstained).   Meanwhile Simcha Felder based on the psak of his rav was willing to stay in Albany over Shabbos to vote against the bill.  David Greenfield Previously ignored the psak of many rabbaniem by endorsing pro same gender "marriage" Lew Fidler.

In 2009 41% of all pregnancies in New York City ended in abortion! The African American Abortion rate was 59.8%!

The vote Greenfield made for abortion on demand

Cuomo Trys To Pass Abortion After Simcha Felder Left For Shabbos

GOP Charges Dems With Gaming in Erev Shabbos Vote

By Yochonon Donn

Tuesday, July 2, 2013 | כ"ד תמוז תשע"ג

ALBANY - It was Erev Shabbos at the New York State Capitol, and Simcha Felder, a state senator who is an Orthodox Jew, was itching to cast his vote on a controversial measure concerning the state’s unborn pushed by liberal Democrats and then travel to Lakewood where he would be spending Shabbos with his family.

Felder, the deciding vote on the pending bill, got a psak from a Rav he consulted that due to the life-and-death nature of the bill, he was permitted, even required, to remain in Albany for Shabbos if that meant he could kill the bill.

But as the morning dragged on, Felder saw no sign that the Senate was readying for a vote.

It was a drama that played out this past Friday in Albany.

The bill itself was passed earlier by the Senate but only with nine non-controversial parts attached, such as establishing equal pay for women. Senate Co-Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) did not allow the tenth clause to be brought to a vote.

However, Jeff Klein, leader of the four-member Independent Democratic Conference which is allied with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, wanted to hand a victory to the Democratic governor, who said in his state of the state address back in January that the bill was a top domestic priority.

Klein’s plan, one which Republicans say was coordinated with the Senate Democrats, was to add the divisive tenth clause to a medical records bill sponsored by Sen. Marty Golden (R-Flatbush). As Friday was the last day of the 2013 session, it was known that that was the day when it would come for a vote.

But Felder, his eye on the clock as it passed noon, listened in the chamber as Democrats made rambling floor speeches and asked questions, obviously indifferent to the fact that Shabbos would begin at 8:12 in Brooklyn, three hours away from Albany. Cuomo was still making calls to Republican senators, trying to peel off at least one of them to allow the amendment to pass.

“You know they are waiting for you to leave for Shabbos,” Sen. Thomas Libous, a Binghamton Republican who is the floor leader of the majority coalition, told Felder matter-of-factly.

At about 4:15 p.m., Felder left the chamber and spotted Sen. Liz Krueger (D-Manhattan) in the hallway.

“It looks like we will be spending Shabbos together in Albany,” he told the non-religious Jewish senator, according to the GOP sources, who paraphrased the conversation for Hamodia.

“Why?” Krueger asked in surprise. “You’re not leaving?”

“No,” Felder said. “I am staying until the bill is struck down.”

Felder then returned to the chamber, and within 15 minutes, the entire Democratic conference was there, six hours after the session had been scheduled to begin. Klein presented his amendment, and it went down 32 to 31, with Felder as the decisive vote.

Republican sources are now charging their Democratic counterparts of exploiting Felder’s status as a shomer Shabbos to slip what would have been a landmark progressive bill through the legislature.

“By slowing things down,” Mark Hansen, a spokesman for the GOP caucus, told Hamodia Tuesday, “that certainly would impact that particular piece of legislation in terms of the timing of Senator Felder and when he needed to leave to observe the Sabbath.”

If Felder would have left Albany, the bill would have had a 31-31 tie, with Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy casting the deciding vote in favor. The GOP is claiming that the Democrats conferencing that day was merely a ploy to deny the chamber the quorum needed to vote, until Felder left.

“Obviously, the Democrats in the Senate wanted to pass this amendment,” Hansen said, “and they were slowing down the session on a Friday afternoon.”

Keith Glazer, a spokeswoman for state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the Democratic leader of the Senate, denied the charge emphatically.

“I was in the conference at the time,” Glazer said, “[and Stewart-Cousins] had no knowledge” that Felder would be staying in Albany.

Andrew Goldston, a spokesman for Krueger, said that the senator did not pass on any message to Stewart-Cousins that Felder would be staying in Albany for Shabbos.

“We just think that that rumor is categorically false,” Goldston said. “I mean, [Krueger] may have heard something about Sen. Felder’s travel plans but we weren’t stalling that day, and we certainly weren’t stalling to find out anything about Sen. Felder.”

Glazer said that at the conference, the Democrats were discussing how to vote on the nine other parts of the bill, not the Klein amendment. Calling it a “surprise amendment,” she said they were not even aware that he would be bringing such a bill that day.

“Klein’s amendment wasn’t a bill per se that they would have conference,” Glazer said. “It wasn’t a bill that was brought up on the floor. … The Democratic conference, under Sen. Stewart-Cousins, had no idea that they would be bringing a hostile amendment to the floor.”

A hostile amendment refers to an amendment attached to another unrelated bill. There is usually no advance warning that it will be presented. But a Senate Republican source said that due to the nature of this bill, the Democrats must have known that the bill would be tabled on Friday.

The offices of both Stewart-Cousins and Krueger noted that it was Klein who offered the amendment without discussing with them, and referred questions to him.

A press person in Klein’s office said they were not sure they would have any comment but would get back to Hamodia. Nobody from the senator’s office called back by press time.

In the meantime, the bill was killed at 4:50, and by 5:20, too late to make it to Lakewood, Felder was on the road to Brooklyn, chauffeured with the help of the Republican caucus.

He made it to his home in Brooklyn 10 minutes before Shabbos began.

Felder refused to comment on the allegations beyond saying, “I hope and pray that nobody had the audacity to discriminate against somebody’s religious beliefs to manipulate the process for political purposes.”

But he said that he was grateful to be able to strike down a bill of such immoral values.

“It’s very rare that Hashem gives you an opportunity to have such as impact on such a critical issue,” he said.

(Hamodia) 

IH the Hamodia will continue and increase the amount of articles like this.

Felder+Dachs=Quinn; Christine Quinn's Jewish Financial Support (A Blast From The Past)

(left to right: Simcha Felder, Christine Quinn, Shloime Dachs, Leon Goldenberg)


THE largest fund-raiser for Christine Quinn's mayoral campaign is an Orthodox Jewish singer who helped collect $53,850 from fellow observant Jews who supposedly don't support gay politicians.

Campaign filings show that Brooklyn-based Shloime Dachs led all other "intermediaries" who rounded up funds for Quinn, the first openly gay City Council speaker.
Many of the 29 contributors are affiliated with organizations - including Agudath Israel and the Ohel Children's Home and Family Services - that receive funding from the council.
Seven of the contributors also wrote checks to the other leading Democratic mayoral contenders, Comptroller Bill Thompson and Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Marvin Hellman, who operates his own real-estate management firm, said he chipped in $1,500 for Quinn because "I'm a friend of Shloime Dachs."  Despite his religious leanings, Hellman said he was not concerned about Quinn's sexual orientation."That's not an issue for me," he said.  Asked why he also gave $1,000 to Thompson and $2,000 to Weiner, Hellman said, "I'm politically active."


Dachs didn't return several calls about a fund-raiser Nov. 7 held in his home, which Quinn attended.
But Councilman Simcha Felder, also an Orthodox Jew, readily admitted he was behind the event.  "I am delighted to say I arranged this fund-raiser and was delighted to encourage people in my district and beyond to support the speaker, who is doing a wonderful job for the city," he said. 

But Felder (D-Brooklyn) stopped short of endorsing Quinn for mayor. "Not at this time," he said.
An executive at one Jewish nonprofit defended the contributions by the orthodox.
"Why should they be any different than the cultural institutions or anyone else?" the exec said. "When it comes to the budget, she's the second most powerful official in the city."
(New York Post 2008)

people who donated to Christine Quinn through Shlomie Dachs

Chaimovits, Sol | $4,950.00
Deutsch, Abraham | $4,950.00
Gabe, Lawrence M. | $250.00
Goldenberg, Leon | $4,950.00
Hatten, Michael J. | $1,000.00
Hellman, Marvin | $1,500.00
Jacobson, Danial A. | $500.00
Jacobson, Susan | $500.00
Kestenbaum, Jay J. | $500.00
Langer, Irving | $500.00
Lieber, Ellen | $3,950.00
Lieber, William M | $3,950.00
Mandel, Susan | $1,000.00
Newman, Marc Z. | $250.00
Rand, Lawrance | $1,000.00
Rieder, Harry | $1,000.00
Ross, Alice | $3,950.00
Ross, Deborah | $3,950.00
Ross, Joseph | $3,950.00
Ross, Solomon | $3,950.00
Sandhaus, Martin | $250.00
Schlachter, Harry | $250.00
Schoenblum, Hyman | $1,500.00
Schwartz, Abraham  | $1,500.00
Steinfeld, Avrohom M. | $1,300.00
Wasser, Shaul | $250.00
Wertman, Charles | $500.00
Zachter, Melvin  | $500.00
Zakheim, Morris J. | $1,250.00

Which "Rabbis" Are Meshubud To Cuomo?

Cuomo denies having anything to do with the machinations— “You are not supposed to interfere in the Legislature, and you’re not supposed to be hyperpartisan. Well, Eliot [Spitzer] was. And that’s why he got nothing done”—and Klein backs him up. “The governor and his people didn’t really interfere in this process,” the senator says. “When the dust settled, he said, ‘Let’s get to work.’ ” But Cuomo is adept at sending signals, and it’s impossible to believe it would have happened if the governor had objected. The Senate play fit with Cuomo’s core big-­picture political vision—that Albany is now a model of bipartisanship—and the structure quickly paid dividends. More important, both Democrats and Republicans now need him. In late December, after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Cuomo pressed his advantage. He threatened to blow up the coalition if legislators didn’t cut short holiday vacations and return to Albany so that New York could be the first state to tighten gun laws. “You think they’ve got Felder?” Cuomo said, according to Senate Republicans. “I have the rabbis who Felder reports to! You think you have Klein? I’ll get Klein to be a Democrat again! You are in power only so long as you can move progressive measures.” (Cuomo denies making the remarks.) The governor was prepared to launch an ad campaign lasting months. No need: In mid-January, the Senate passed Cuomo’s gun-control package two hours after the bill was distributed.
(NY Mag)