Like your reply basically this group violated the Parishoners freedom of worship In the Eastern Orthodox Church only the Priest can approach the iconostas during a service as it is considered Holy. Imagine the out cry if this was done in a Mosque. Anyway what I wonder about is whether the people who had sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York a couple years back what kind of sentences did they get?
Obama represents the distorted perspective of the far Left. The attitude of treating the desecration of a Church service as some form of free speech is very analogous to what the ACLU has accomplished with the help of Activist Judges, over a multi-generational assault on Legal perspectives in America. What we have now is not at all what the brave men who won our Liberty ever intended.
See Leftist Word Games & Religious Freedom.
The assault started out as a defense of dissidents' right to not participate in school or public prayer; but gradually morphed into a denial of the right of the Faithful to have school or public prayer.
Frankly, I commend Russia for not following the idiotic example of what our Leftists have accomplished--for the time being, at least.
William Flax