And today we actually had the last class

I still think I was in a different seminar than everyone else. When I read the supposedly hidebound tshuva of Rabbi Roth, I found it to be sensitive and compassionate, hardly fire-and-brimstone. For that matter, when I read the supposedly outrageously radical article of Rabbi Artson, I found it not so dramatically different in its view of homosexuality than Roth's paper -- though the two certainly different in their view of halacha, they don't so much differ in how they judge people.

I wish we had looked at a more recent paper -- though not much is there -- maybe Rabbi Handler's?

But this week, we didn't do any of that, anyway, we had a visit from
Rabbi Bennett -- it was moving, too, but in a rather different way -- and, in an interesting sense, it paralleled the first week, in which we saw Trembling Before G-d -- not just in putting aside teshuvot for personal experiences, but in what it said -- partly by omission -- about the Conservative movements approach to halacha, quite apart from the specific issue of homosexuality.

I want to expand in this, but I have to work it out in my mind a bit first. Or maybe I should just dump it all on paper, while the muddiness is at least fresh.