Conservative rabbis open doors to gays, sort of
With the endorsement Wednesday of three conflicting teshuvot, or halachic responsa, by the movement\’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards — two upholding the longstanding ban on homosexuality and one permitting ordination of gay rabbis and commitment ceremonies — it\’s likely that other rabbis will now begin performing such ceremonies, comfortable in the knowledge that they enjoy halachic sanction from the movement\’s highest legal body.