>>>Dream on. He went to the same church every Sunday and never heard what the pastor said. Great memory and attention to details.
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>>That's not what he said. He said he sometimes heard things he disagreed with, but that he heard lots more there, too.
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>>I don't know about you, but I've disagreed with my rabbi's sermons plenty of times, and wouldn't want his politics to be assumed to be mine. (FWIW, I said the same thing before Obama said something like it in his speech.) A church or synagogue is much more than just the preacher; it's a community that one belongs to for lots of reasons.
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>Did he say it before or after? Initial reaction was that he never heard and (a bit after) that he did not pay attention. Now (bigger after) he heard but could not disown.
>Hopefully, your rabbi has milder views. In my books if you hear something that you don't like much (let's put it diplomatically) and stay silent and continue normal discourse, as if nothing happened, with the person then the inaction becomes a complicity.

I would sure hate to be viewed as complicit in everything my friends say. Tamar is right. We associate with people and organizations for a variety of reasons. We don't necessarily need to cut someone off at the knees just because they say something we disagree with. That's an unreasonably high standard IMO. Self-righteous almost.