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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Having grown up in the South during the years of the Jim Crow laws, Ellenson said that the issue of gay marriage is “virtually identical” to that of civil rights in the South...

Author: By Alex Fortes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rabbi Supports Gay Marriage | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...talk yesterday, Ellenson also explained his personal reasons for his views...

Author: By Alex Fortes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rabbi Supports Gay Marriage | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...same views most heterosexual teenage males had about homosexuality, and never really even thought about these issues,” said Ellenson, who grew up in Newport News...

Author: By Alex Fortes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rabbi Supports Gay Marriage | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

While he has held these views for years, Ellenson said his choice to speak out was prompted by this year’s State of the Union address, in which President George W. Bush called for the protection of the institution of marriage by denying same-sex couples the right to marry...

Author: By Alex Fortes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rabbi Supports Gay Marriage | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

While he admitted that homosexuality is always portrayed in a negative light in Jewish texts, Ellenson looked at tradition in a broader sense...

Author: By Alex Fortes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rabbi Supports Gay Marriage | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

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