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Russian Church official draws criticism for calling unwed mothers “whores”
The Moscow Times ^ | 11/12/2013 19:10 | Anna Arutunyan

Posted on 12/23/2013 9:16:51 PM PST by cunning_fish

A Russian Orthodox Church official in the Siberian region of Tomsk sparked controversy after publishing an article calling unwed mothers “whores.”

Maxim Stepanenko, head of the Missionary Department of the Tomsk Diocese penned an article titled “So many whores in the land of Tomsk! We have no future!”

The article, published on k-istine.ru on December 4 and since deleted, pointed to federal statistics saying that 28 percent of children in the Tomsk region were born to unwed mothers in 2012.

According to a cached version of the original, Stepanenko also called on the “rehabilitation of the word ‘blyad’,” The word is an obscenity connoting “whore” in modern Russian, but an Old Church Slavonic version of it signified “adulterer.”

He argued that co-habiting couples have no future.

The Church distanced itself from Stepanenko’s article, with a priest in the Tomsk Diocese calling it “his personal opinion,” RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. The priest also suggested that Stepanenko’s views were mistaken, according to comments cited by RIA Novosti.

Stepanenko deleted the article, explaining in a new version that he had done so reluctantly.

But his comments drew criticism from other church leaders. Archdeacon Andrei Kurayev wrote in a LiveJournal post on Wednesday that unwed mothers who chose not to abort deserved respect and not derision, and said that Stepanenko should look for another job.

(Excerpt) Read more at themoscownews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; church; fluke; obama; plannedparenthood; religion; roc; russia
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To: doc1019

Obviously the one that uses rap to get what they want. Great Freudian typo.


21 posted on 12/23/2013 9:51:05 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

LOL! Good catch. My bad.


22 posted on 12/23/2013 9:53:50 PM PST by doc1019 (LOL!)
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To: Mastador1

When women get pregnant-—it is usually because the women want to get pregnant or too drugged to care. (Their own fault). Also-—women who get raped are usually setting themselves up to get raped and they know it.

That is my experience and I have known women who got pregnant and gave their babies up for adoption.....cause the man wouldn’t marry them. Women have much more control over their sexual instincts than a man-—and that is the nature of man/woman.

There is a big difference-—unlike what the media is trying to portray-—that men and women are exactly the same and interchangeable.....it is such a lie-—like all they say and do. It is to blur the line “for the children” for a Marxist/homosexual worldview (erasing of Christian Ethics by the God is Dead crowd.)

Now-—I am talking about a culture without those hordes of raping muslims like Europe has........those cultures are no longer civil societies. In those places, women need to be armed and trained for self defense——and that goes here too, when they go into the inner godless cities which the Democrats turned into hell holes.


23 posted on 12/23/2013 9:55:30 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: doc1019

Oh my. I am so glad my daughters are not into rap!
I will never have to worry unless they start listening to rap....


24 posted on 12/23/2013 10:21:40 PM PST by borntobeagle (It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Don't Feel Fine.)
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To: Viennacon

Thats almost exactly the illegitimacy rate among american Whites, and where the black population was when Daniel Moynihan wrote this is 1965...

“The fundamental problem,” Moynihan wrote,

is that of family structure….[T]he Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. A middle class group has managed to save itself, but for vast numbers of the unskilled…[and] poorly educated…the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated….So long as this situation persists, the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself.”

He also wrote that society could survive the problem in a minority, but not if it occurred to the majority.


25 posted on 12/23/2013 10:36:47 PM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: doc1019

I’d be lying if I denied laughing.


26 posted on 12/23/2013 10:59:37 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Mastador1
So what does he have to say for the fathers?

whoremonger [ˈhɔːˌmʌŋgə]

n

a person who consorts with whores; lecher whoremongery n

27 posted on 12/23/2013 11:12:51 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Viennacon

Picture of Sandra fluke with your comment.


28 posted on 12/23/2013 11:18:20 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: doc1019; Mastador1

Is the sin of sleeping around outside married for men less severe than for women in the eyes of God?


29 posted on 12/24/2013 12:28:12 AM PST by paudio (Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame much better than Christian churches do...)
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To: paudio

Ugh.. marriage... not married... changing sentences sometimes result in this..


30 posted on 12/24/2013 12:32:15 AM PST by paudio (Liberals teach Whites about guilt and shame much better than Christian churches do...)
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To: cunning_fish

Silly bugger! They’re not whores; whores have enough sense to A) get paid; B) not get pregnant.

They’re mostly sluts, slatterns, tarts, tramps, or Liberals.


31 posted on 12/24/2013 2:31:14 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: doc1019

Of course this was back in the 60’s when being a slut was a bad thing, being a whore was a curse. To be with child without benefit of marriage was consider a sin.


And, here in Texas you were expected to marry her.....PERIOD!


32 posted on 12/24/2013 4:07:29 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Mastador1

Focusing on men is useless. It only takes one man to impregnate dozens of women. The problem can only be fixed by changing womens attitudes.


33 posted on 12/24/2013 4:17:17 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: paudio

Didn’t say that ... not nice to put words in another persons mouth. ;-)


34 posted on 12/24/2013 4:51:12 AM PST by doc1019 (LOL!)
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To: Gene Eric; All

Yea, yea, yea ... the absence of one letter in a word and I’m the laughingstock of the entire inter webs. (Even I got a good laugh out of it).


35 posted on 12/24/2013 4:52:31 AM PST by doc1019 (LOL!)
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To: doc1019

I’m sorry...didn’t mean to offend, but it was just so funny!!

I think many of us need to lighten up and have a good laugh right now.

Merry Christmas to you and yours!


36 posted on 12/24/2013 2:44:33 PM PST by borntobeagle (It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Don't Feel Fine.)
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