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To: MarkBsnr

Sorry, but I lived in an Orthodox environment in the 1970s and they had huge problems with gays, which they never solved because they could never discuss them.

I remember when a certain rector of an American Orthodox seminary had to say he didn’t want to be in charge of a group of pot-smoking homosexuals...after a (married) candidate for the priesthood was caught parading around in vestments mocking the Sacrament. And then there was the time when gay men in the SF diocese, mostly deacons but some priests as well, actually felt confident enough to complain to the elderly, confused, foreign-born bishop about the behavior of other gays. And finally, of course, the then Metropolitan was revealed to have had a number of “relationships” while he was busy stealing the church blind.

Homosexuals infiltrate everywhere. Orthodox bishops must be monks or widowers, and priests must be monks or married. But being married (to a woman) doesn’t bother them in the least, and the seminary was full of women who went there, theoretically studying to be catechists, to snag a priest husband and ended up with somebody living a double life.

Many of the corrupt Orthodox traded on the fact that some of their bishops were from the Old World and barely spoke English and were out of the loop on a lot of things. But having known a flamboyantly gay Orthodox priest in PA who wore his velvet blazer and clerical collar to every gay bar in PGH, and occasionally met the future Metropolitan there, I don’t think the Orthodox have much to boast about.


61 posted on 07/09/2011 1:38:45 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Many of the corrupt Orthodox traded on the fact that some of their bishops were from the Old World and barely spoke English and were out of the loop on a lot of things. But having known a flamboyantly gay Orthodox priest in PA who wore his velvet blazer and clerical collar to every gay bar in PGH, and occasionally met the future Metropolitan there, I don’t think the Orthodox have much to boast about.

My experiences with the Orthodox don't include much boasting from them. Remember that I didn't say that they didn't have any problems with it, but that they didn't have the problem to the extent that the Latin Church developed in the 60s and 70s. That became rather horrific.

I was an altar boy, but never experienced, or even heard of anything like that. My home diocese was thankfully spared from this horror.

63 posted on 07/09/2011 1:53:05 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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