European Parliament Says Monks Must End 1,000-Year Male Only Tradition

EWTN ^ | 9/12/03

[marshmallow]

Athens, Sep. 11 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) - For a thousand years, the Greek Orthodox monks of Mount Athos have been praying in quiet and seclusion, unmolested by the outside world. But their peace may be coming to an end in the name of tolerance and non-discrimination. A plenary session of the European Parliament has passed a proposal/report demanding that the Greek government rescind the special protection the monks have enjoyed for a millennium.

Mount Athos (or "Hagion Oros," i.e. Holy Mountain) has constituted the heart of the Orthodox ascetic life for more than one thousand years. As such, it could be said that it also serves as the guardian of what is referred to as the Orthodox Art. In its thousand year tradition, no women have been allowed to visit the island. Now the tolerance and anti-discrimination movement centered in the European Parliament are set to forcibly impose their views on the monks.

"It's simply unbelievable," said Hilary White, spokesman for Campaign Life Catholic. "Is no-one ever to be left alone by these busybodies? As a Catholic woman, I can truly say that I have always been grateful that the monks of Athos have been there praising, worshipping, and interceding with God on my behalf and I have never felt the slightest desire to go there and disturb their peace. Who will liberate us from these tyrants of secularist tolerance when they have eliminated all traces of religious freedom from every corner of the world?"

The Greek Socialist members of the European Parliament refused to vote in favor of the proposal. Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Tassos Yiannitsis said such a demand "would be in direct confrontation with fundamental, 1,000-year-old traditions, our faith, and the monastic spirit of the Mountain."

[TexasNative2000]

"would be in direct confrontation with fundamental, 1,000-year-old traditions, our faith, and the monastic spirit of the Mountain."

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but there's some 34 year old lesbian in Amsterdam who is offended by your tradition, so CHANGE IT!

< sarcasm off >

[Guillermo]

Unbelievable.

Actually, it's vrey believable.

The right to not be offended (If you're a leftist, homosexual deviant or feminist) will soon be the law of Europe.

[Tax-chick]

Nuke the European Parliament! (just a figure of speech, honest ...) I can't believe any sovereign nation would put up with this kind of interference ... get yourselves out of the EU, Greece; it's only going to get worse!

(Did you see this, doc?)

[goldstategop]

It would hurt some feminizt's feelings to be forbidden to visit a sacred place and now we can't have that. That's discrimination against women and it has got to go.

[Noachian]

"It's simply unbelievable," said Hilary White, spokesman for Campaign Life Catholic. "Is no-one ever to be left alone by these busybodies? As a Catholic woman, I can truly say that I have always been grateful that the monks of Athos have been there praising, worshipping, and interceding with God on my behalf and I have never felt the slightest desire to go there and disturb their peace. Who will liberate us from these tyrants of secularist tolerance when they have eliminated all traces of religious freedom from every corner of the world?"

The lady sums it up quiet nicely.

This is the results of giving intolerant and bias liberal/socialists the authority to change people's lives according to their own whim. They are, as the lady says, tyrants, and those that follow them willingly are fools.

[whereasandsoforth]

European Parliament is sort of a petri dish for World Government. The Greeks need to pull out and tell the others to go suck a olive branch.

[coffeecup]

Is there nothing that is sacred from these meddlesome busybodies.

[SES1066]

Typical of Utopians who seek to make everybody toe their concept of a perfected world. I know of no conservative Utopians and that especially includes our Founding Fathers. Governments, like fire, are useful and essential servants but are dangerous masters.

Our US Constitution put severe limits on what our government could or could not do. It lasted and worked reasonably well until the Great Depression when the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights became invisible to the US Supreme Court. What we now see in the above example will repeat here as these Utopians and professional busybodies seek to perfect their world and drag the rest of us into their dreams and our nightmares!

[Revolting cat!]

They're right the Europeeing ParlaMENTALS, doncha see? "Can't we just all get along?", they say, and if you disagree with such a beautiful notion, then off with your fascist butt to a re-education camp.

[Cicero]

It's astonishing that Europeans keep putting up with these diktats from unelected bureaucrats.

English farmers have been arrested for selling their produce by the pound, not in supermarkets but at farm stands.

An article posted here a few months ago noted that pig farmers now have to give their pigs toys to play with, for fear that they will chew off each other's tails.

And there's no way to vote the rascals out.

[CasearianDaoist]

This summer a european circus performing in London had to make their clowns wear hardhat because of some EU rule. I kid you not.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[yankeedame]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but there's some 34 year old lesbian in Amsterdam who is offended by your tradition, so CHANGE IT! < sarcasm off >

Touche`!

[wildbill]

Strangely enough, none of these leftist facists ever think to challenge or question the Muslim prohibition of 'infidels' from visiting the sacred shrines of Islam--and the penalty is death.

Personally, if no one wants me to go to their private religious site, I'm OK with that.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

For a thousand years, the Greek Orthodox monks of Mount Athos have been praying in quiet and seclusion, unmolested by the outside world.

Is this land is private property? If so why does it mention that the monks were given "special protection"?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Oh, good grief.

[Beck_isright]

NWO in action. Coming to our shores soon.

[piasa]

Looks like they could use some "separation of church and state" over there...

[Polycarp]

European Parliament Says Monks Must End 1,000-Year Male Only Tradition

Scr*w the EU.

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