Anti-discrimination bill pulled at SPCs behest? (Serb Orthodox Church pressure against "gay OK" law)

B92 ^

[kronos77]

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has confirmed that it sent a protest against the Law against Discrimination, which was pulled from parliamentary procedure.

According to B92’s sources, this law was pulled from procedure at the request of the SPC. The Church confirmed to daily Blic that it had sent a letter to the Human and Minority Rights Ministry, but it could not confirm whether any other churches had lodged objections to the law as well.

The decision to pull the law from procedure was made at a telephone session, even though parliament must adopt that law as part of the conditions for getting Serbia on the Schengen white list for visa-free travel.

Human and Minority Rights State Secretary Marko Karadžić told B92 that the law against discrimination met all the highest standards and had gone through every procedure of adoption.

“I can clearly say that this is a secular country and that no church can have any such say in the passing of such laws. The Human and Minority Rights Ministry will not allow any substantial changes to the law and will demand that the law be adopted as soon as possible,” Karadžić said.

[kronos77]

[kronos77]

Ping!

[Byzantio]

Welcome to the EU!

[Bokababe]

So if I understand this law correctly, then a priest would not be able to condemn homosexual activity in a sermon; he would be forced to perform gay marriages, and the Church would be forced accept gay men into the priesthood? Or does the law not go that far?

I know that a year or two ago there was a lot of EU grousing over Mt. Athos in Greece which allows no women on the island. The EU considered this "discrimination", when in fact the whole island is "a monastery", with a virtual UN of actual monasteries on it.

At what point does this social engineering stop?

[kronos77]

Serb Orthodox Church is as it seems just a messanger and that all monotheistic religions in Serbia objected the law, Catholics, Muslims, Jews and Protestans aswell.

Law was making possible for hummos to sue priest that refuse to wed them!!!!