[FormerLib]

Some homosexuals were apparently going to try a similar takeover of an Orthodox Church in Russia. The story played out a little differently.

Few would fault the clarity of the Orthodox response to the September marriage of Denis Gogolyev and Mikhail Morozev in the Mother of God Chapel in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

The bishops defrocked the priest, bulldozed the church and burned the wreckage.

The Russians have a talent, at times, for making a clear statement.

[playball0]

In the old Soviet system, if someone was caught with their hand in the till without the proper tribute to the party higher-ups, he was executed and family sent to Siberia.