{"id":283,"date":"2009-06-05T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/06\/why-do-straight-people-go-to-g.html"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:08:14","slug":"why-do-straight-people-go-to-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/06\/why-do-straight-people-go-to-g.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Straight People Go To Gay Synagogues?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This reminds me of the old joke about the reporter who asked the famous bank robber, Willy Sutton, why he robbed banks. Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is”.
\nPeople attend a particular synagogue because that’s where the meaning is, at least for them. But what that meaning is, and how they find it, is the topic of this fascinating article about straight people attending gay synagogues<\/a>.
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This reminds me of the old joke about the reporter who asked the famous bank robber, Willy Sutton, why he robbed banks. Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is”. People attend a particular synagogue because that’s where the meaning is, at least for them. 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