JWR Outlook    By Rabbi Avi Shafran
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- The Central Conference of
American Rabbis' decision last week to support Reform rabbis who
choose to officiate at same-sex commitment ceremonies is causing
a good deal of grumbling in some Reform lay circles, as well it
should.  For Orthodox Jews, who regard the revelation at Sinai
as no less an historical fact than any other mass-witnessed,
recorded and entrusted event, the shock of Reform rabbis
sanctioning acts the Torah considers deeply sinful was somewhat
mitigated. After all, the Reform movement was built on rejection
of the Torah's divine origin and the binding nature of its laws.
This latest move was but a new manifestation of that old
repudiation.  For many other Jews, though, who had never given
the historicity of Sinai much thought but had come to feel most
comfortable in Reform temples, the recent move has brought about
a crisis of conscience. Econophone It is widely known that the
Reform leadership's cautious endorsement las