The ROC will continue crusade against homosexuality
The Russian Orthodox Church is not going to compromise and will not cease to call sin gay marriage, child adoption by homosexual parents and surrogate motherhood.
About it in his interview to RIA Novosti said the head of the Synodal information Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda.
On reporter's question about whether the later of the ROC to compromise, Legoida replied with a quote from 2 Corinthians the Apostle Paul: "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? The single hath light with darkness? And what communion hath Christ with Belial?" (2 cor. 6:14-15).
Creation of conditions for the slightest recognition of sin, under the version of Legoida, is pernicious not only for the Church but also for the society. "Unfortunately, "ideological" supporters of the struggle with the classical family values will not rest until you pull out from the Holy Scriptures last page, where it says that sodomy is a sin," said he.
No compromise with the "anti-Christian ideologies" there can be no question, because in some Western European countries, said the Legoyda, people are subjected to "persecution" exclusively for what they call homosexuality a sin. He added that understanding, you can treat the sinner but not the sin.
In an interview devoted to the fifth anniversary of the enthronement of Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill, Legoida also said that the Church and the government should relate to each other as soul and body of man, and criticism of the Church's life may not be perfect it through search and disclosure of foreign errors and sins. "However I believe that among critics actually there are those who sincerely want to make Church life better. But if the steering Toolkit is malleable chair in front of the screen with an online diary, then, unfortunately, it will hardly bear fruit," said the Legoyda.
At the end of December 2013 Protodeacon Andrey Kuraev, dismissed from the Moscow theological Academy, said in his blog about the presence of Russian Orthodox Church "gay lobby". Directly it, taking into account opinion of Kuraev, tried to hush up the scandal at the Kazan Seminary, where the Abbot was accused of abuse of seminarians, and further contributed to his dismissal. In response, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin called the archdeacon to repent for his words about "blue lobby".
Patriarch Kirill previously explained the struggle of the ROC with the legalization of gay marriage nature of Christianity and the legalization of gay unions in other countries - apocalyptic sign. In 2012 the Moscow Patriarchate have adopted a circular in which, among the "incorrect values hostile liberalism"alleged "anti-Church forces", was called same-sex marriages.
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