Rabbi Riesner's lecture

I found that Rabbi Reisner’s lecture was very fascinating and practical to the current state of Conservative Judaism. The process behind the amendments to Jewish law was something that stuck me as very interesting, since I never realized that the law was adaptable to modern society in such a formal manor. However, I found the Rabbi’s views on homosexuality in today’s Jewish society very contradicting. I thought the way Rabbi Reisner and other people in his position define homosexuality is ridiculous. It plays way to many semantics in defining who is a homosexual and who can be a Rabbi. That being said, the comparison that was made between economic growth amendments in Jewish law and sexual preference amendments had no business being made. Those are two totally different subjects, and are like comparing apples to oranges. The fact that a homosexual Rabbi is allowed to practice while being celibate, but not while sexually active with another man makes no sense. This is a subject that Conservative Judaism really needs to take a sound stand on. Being in the middle on a subject like this can discrepancies within the Jewish community and stop progress on modernizing other, more pressing issues that need to be amended in Jewish law.