''Past experience shows that the parade greatly offends, deliberately and unnecessarily, the feelings of Jews, Muslims and Christians, who view its sheer existence, and the blatant manner in which it takes place, as a desecration of the holy city and of the values with which they were raised.''
Portion of a letter from Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski and city manager Yair Ma'ayan to the High Court of Justice in support of a petition by conservatives to block the city's Gay Pride Parade. (Haaretz)
