Posted on 02/20/2020 5:59:24 PM PST by marshmallow
His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, supports the recent statements from President Vladimir Putin in favor of the traditional understanding of the family as the union of a man and a woman.
“As for ‘parent # 1’ and ‘parent # 2, I have already said publicly once before, and I will repeat again: as long as I am President, we will not have parents one and two—we will have a father and mother,” the President said on February 13 at a meeting with the working group on preparing amendments to the Constitution.
He also supported the initiative that “the concept of marriage as a union of a man and a woman should be enshrined in the basic law.”
“I am glad that the President openly stated this, because, unfortunately, I see what is happening in some Western countries with the absolutely unabashed, shameless, intrusive and aggressive propaganda of so-called alternative family lifestyles, when, for example, two men or two women can create a family and adopt a child. Then it will not be mom and dad, but, indeed, ‘parent #1’ and ‘parent #2,’” Met. Hilarion commented, as reports Foma.
Referring to the fact that Western society is now being insistently taught that marriage can take multiple forms, the Metropolitan stressed: “But I think that in our country, where the absolute majority of people adhere to traditional values, even regardless of their religious affiliation, it is very important that the Constitution enshrines this concept of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.”
Vladimir Legoida, head of the Synodal Department for Relations Between the Church and Society and the Media, also commented on the President’s statement, saying, “The Church certainly welcomes this statement of the President.
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I hate it when the Russians have more sense than us.
Seems Russians are more intelligent than the liberal idiots here.
As it should be.
Good.
Putin’s 2016 Christmas message. I wish our politicians had this Christian worldview.
Ain't it the truth. Ain't it the truth!
Vlad isn’t all bad.
The US & the Euros? smh
I know - and it seems to be happening more and more
Not, they do not have more sense than "us," but have more sense than liberals. Putin is an enemy of "us" evangelical Christians - outlawing evangelism even over the phone - and a military aggressor vs the US in the interest of his own power (though Clinton is partly to blame for that), and few Orthodox attend church, and abortion is legal and at least as high as of the US (though deceasing via contraception), and the birth rate is about the same as the US (much due to contraception).
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