Posted on 04/29/2008 7:49:49 PM PDT by Coleus
MOSCOW, April 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)- The Moscow City government has made it clear that it will not tolerate the public promotion of sodomy during Labor Day celebrations on May 1st. "The city authorities will act decisively, just as they have in years past, to impede those actions," said Serguéi Tsoy, a spokesman for Moscow's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.
"The absolute majority in society rejects those demonstrations, as well as the gay lifestyle and philosophy," Luzhkov added, and warned that if homosexuals took to the streets they could be injured by attackers, according to Interfax. "Homosexuals intend to create disharmony to obstruct a historic celebration and impose its norms and creed on society," he said.
Homosexual groups organized illegal demonstrations in 2006 and 2007, which they have used to create international pressure on Moscow to accede to their political agenda. They have appealed the Moscow government's decision to ban such marches to the European court in Strasbourg. But Luzhkov and the Moscow government haven't budged. Luzhkov seems to have a particular devotion to opposing the promotion of sodomy. At a meeting in 2006 with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, Luzhkov reportedly called gay demonstrations "a satanic event". Homosexual organizer Nikolay Alexyev claims he will test the Moscow government's resolve this year by organizing five marches a day during the entire month of May.
One thing me and the commies agree on I guess. The last thing I’d ever want to see is a bunch of naked men strapped to crosses being beaten with sticks.
That’s what these things turn into.
Say what you will about modern Russia, but Communism is long, dead and gone over there.
One thing the Russians have got right.
Ah farkehrteh velt! (An upside-down world!)
They will not be forced into accepting the Gay Lifestyle. No ACLU in Russia and a lot of traditionalist believers who will take things into their own hands. What works in Paris and Berlin will not in Moscow or Saint Petersburg.
Another poster said that communism is long dead and gone in Russia. Nope, it is not.
Orthodox Christian priests have to be married. A monk can only serve the people under unusual conditions. The priest are rented from the bishop and the people have to build their own church and a place for the priest and his wife and kids. Since they have both married and non-married clergy they know the way Satan causes men and women to sin with their bodies. My point is the over population crowd don’t have any faith that God cares for his own. And the commies said the churches belonged to the state and the priests belonged in the ground.
They don’t have to be married, there are both married and celebate priests. The bishops are all celibate
A paradox indeed. The Mayor of Moscow called homosexuality “demonic”
Oh there sooooo mean.
The outcomes are: 1) there are monk priests, married priests and celibate (but not monk priests). The celibates and monks are supposed to serve in remote areas, in the military, prisons and such. 2) widowed priests or deacons cannot marry again. Most parish priests are married.
The bishops, as Mount Athos has already said, are always monks.
I’m sorry you are excerpting something from a rule book. I thought that was what I had written
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