One of the most popular newsletters among religious Zionists in Israel, Small World, included a satirical piece on Friday that compared same-sex relationships to incest.
The piece is set in 2040 and includes an interview with the would-be education minister that year, in an apparent attempt to defend today's conservative Education Minister Rafi Peretz, who recently said gay relationships were against nature.
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The newsletter editors explain that they decided to print this fake interview because of the firestorm caused by Peretz recently when he said gay relationships were not commensurate with nature and were unhealthy.
"Now that the [Peretz] storm is behind us, we decided to run this [fake] interview; the comments in this interview were never actually said, but this interaction could very well take place in several years if the current pace of things continues," the editors wrote.
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The fake interview has a liberal interviewer challenging a fake minister who defends opposite-sex relationships as the only real relationships.
"Well, minister, how would you react if one of your sons was attracted to his sister?" the fake reporter asks.
The 2040 minister responds: "Thank God my children had a healthy and natural upbringing. They now live in a household that is defined by Jewish values; I don't think about hypotheticals."
The imaginary minister is then asked whether brothers and sisters who are attracted to one another should be accepted by society, and he rejects that idea.
The reporter presses him on the matter, saying: "What's there to accept? They were born that way. It's not similar to people who do not observe Shabbat, whom we can protest against. This orientation was imposed on them, and to reject the attraction between siblings is like rejecting someone because of the color of their skin."
But the would-be minister sticks to his guns: "I don't think this is just like the color of someone's skin. This comparison is terrible because we can change people's orientation. The problem is that the scientific community is terrorizing anyone who challenges the prevailing thought and against anyone who wants to see whether the underlying assumptions are in fact true."
