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18. CCAR Yearbook, vol. 100, 1990, 109-110. 57 51.3, pp 159 f.

19. Supra note 1, p. 12.

20. Ibid.

21. Nathaniel S. Lehrman," The Reversibility of Homosexuality," Midstream,

April, 1998, pp. 30 f.

22. Hilkhot Teshuvah 5: 2.

23. H. Montgomery Hyde , Famous Trials, Oscar Wilde , Middlesex, 1962, pp.

222-273.

24. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1978, 32: 414.

25. Walter Jacob , Questions and Reform Jewish Answers, New York , 1992,# 109, p. 173

26. W. Gunther Plaut and Mark Washofsky, Teshuvot for the Nineties, New York , 1997,

27. HUCALUM, Digest 239, 29 November, 1999( copied in another digest). 28. In December, 1999, the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont made a precedent- making decision in favor of three same- sex couples who had appealed in 1977 for the right to a recognized marriage. The judges did not give a verdict recognizing homosexual and lesbian marriages, but they made it clear to the Vermont legislature that it has the following choice: either to give full recognition to such states of matrimony or to establish a comprehensive arrangement of" domestic partnership" that would give them the same rights as married couples.

29. Internet, Thomas Legislation.

30. Solomon B. Freehof , Contemporary Reform Responsa, Cicinnati, 1974, pp. 100-103.

31. Kiddushin 5a; Yevamot 13b.

32. Teshuvot on Jewish Marriage, Cincinnati , 1985, p. 40.

33. Ibid. pp. 29-30.

34. Ibid. pp. 40-41.

35. Moshe Zemer , Journal of Reform Judaism, Spring 1988, p. 32.

36. CCAR Journal, Winter 1998, p. 29.