Posted on 12/28/2022 6:25:44 PM PST by marshmallow
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled today that the bill calling for the forced renaming of churches or religious organizations associated with organizations in Russia is in line with state constitution.
Although it has been legally registered as the “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” for 30 years, there have been attempts at least since 2018 under President Poroshenko to forcibly rename the UOC as the “Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine,” although these attempts have been repeatedly blocked by Ukrainian courts.
It is well known that renaming the Church is simply laying the foundation to seize churches and outright ban the Ukrainian Church, which has come under increased pressure and persecution from the state in recent months.
Viktor Yelensky, the new head of the State Ethnopolitics Service (whose predecessor who opposed the banning of the UOC was recently fired), openly stated last week that the courts could outright ban religious organizations.
The new decision of the Constitutional Court takes into account the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ilyin vs. Ukraine, which says that the state dictating a church’s name in order not to mislead people can be a justified restriction of the church’s right to name itself, reports the Court’s official site.
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No it doesn’t. Messing with the Churches is tyrannical and not justified by anything.
Why don’t you tell that to Russia which effectively banned every church but the official state church.
“Ain’t no woke here.”
Noted and no offense intended.
In our part of the country every time we see a Prius they’re always from out of state, they are ALWAYS speeding, and they’re always rude about our pickup trucks...right up until they need you and your pickup truck to get them out of a mess!
It’s crazy how many of them will take these city cars on steep mountain roads that I don’t feel safe driving in a Polaris. Then they get stuck and they’re amazed that AAA won’t come and get them.
If you’re ever out in Wyoming then along the Shoshone River heading towards Needle Mountain you’ll find a blue Prius that drove off a cattle track. It’s all shot up now but the point is the fool drove it in so far! It’s just crazy.
You're supposed to use the appropriate tool for a given task. But there are still folks who will use a pair of pliers as a hammer, or a butter knife as a pry-bar.
Around here (Upstate NY, Ithaca area) a Prius is a 3-season strictly on-road vehicle. I put snow tires on mine so I can use it in clear winter situations, but it's still 2WD low-clearance, so it doesn't get much use other than groceries.
The pickup is a beast, necessarily so for snow-plowing my hilly, wooded gravel driveway, and hauling stuff around. And it gets chains for winter, otherwise even that would have trouble on the steep parts.
Following a cattle track in a Prius? I laughed myself silly reading that. :-)
Putin’s attitude towards religion is purely utilitarian. The church’s function is to convince its people and normalise something that is unnatural - for example, a war against a “fraternal people”.
From the era of Stalin, the Russian Patriarchate has been closely cooperating with Russian secret services. That was Stalin’s deal. In 2002, Patriarch participated together with the head of FSB in the opening of the Saint Sophia Church in downtown Moscow which was considered an open recognition of their special relationship.
As to the rest of the nation, less than 5% of ethnic Russians are regular churchgoers.
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