Gay Pride in Jerusalem

This years Pride Parade, last Thursday, in Jerusalem had 2000 participants and 1600 cops attending, compared to 12.000 cops in 2006. Except for one egg-throwing incident it was fairly peaceful this year. In past years there were stabbings and violence by ultra-Orthodox Jews and extremists. While I am glad this year everything went fine I don’t know if I support a gay pride in Jerusalem. I am all for prides as I wrote in earlier posts, and they have one in Israel already in the much more progressive Tel Aviv. I think holding it in a city that is so tied to religion is a little bit provocative and unnecessary. What good does this do for the gay cause??