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Greek [Orthodox] Bishop Convicted Over Comments Attacking Gays
AP ^ | 1/28/19

Posted on 02/05/2019 5:19:13 PM PST by marshmallow

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek court has convicted a prominent Orthodox Church official of violating laws against racism and abusing his office over an anti-gay blog posting.

Amvrossios, Bishop of Kalavryta and Aigialeia in the southern Peloponnese region, received a seven-month sentence, suspended for three years.

Amvrossios urged readers in his 2015 posting to “spit upon” homosexuals, adding: “They are not human beings, they are rejects of nature.”

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1 posted on 02/05/2019 5:19:13 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

well, actually spitting on people is not really what most good sermons implore parishioners to do


2 posted on 02/05/2019 5:22:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: marshmallow

Sodomites are a race?


3 posted on 02/05/2019 5:22:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Sodomites are a race?

Who knew?

To Progressives, racism is like the Constitution.

It means whatever they want it to mean, whenever they want it.

4 posted on 02/05/2019 5:28:40 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: faithhopecharity

I agree. Hate the sin, but love the sinner. The bishop went too far. Of course that doesn’t justify the commie speech police.


5 posted on 02/05/2019 6:49:25 PM PST by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: marshmallow

I don’t really want to be pissing-off a reject of nature.


6 posted on 02/05/2019 8:28:23 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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