The reaction of the spokesperson of the BOR to the legalization of same-sex marriages in Greece

The spokesperson of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Vasile Bănescu, reacted on Friday after Greece voted on Thursday, February 15, for same-sex marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex parents.

“Surrealistic title: <>.” The phrase <> has absolutely no relevance in the context. It was not the Orthodox Greek people who voted and legalized the unnatural, but, as in other countries, the politicians influenced by the noisy ideological cores that impressed them more than the truth itself. The modern state has no religious features, so it is by its very nature a-moral. A <> state/government, although a-religious, naturally takes care not to weaken to the point of dissolution its fundamental social structure which is the <>, through which any society endures in history and moves forward , so not to self-sabotage by privileging ideologies to the detriment of reality“, Vasile Bănescu wrote on Facebook.

According to him “the venerable institution of marriage, open exclusively to the union of a man and a woman, was founded at the beginning of humanity and has functioned for millennia with quintessentially noble purposes, founded on human nature and the higher reasons of nature which presupposes not only vital biological perpetuation , but also the moral training and realistic education of children who will become adults”.

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Vasile Bănescu says, however, that the progress of mankind has absolutely nothing to do with the progressivism that sabotages it, just as order has nothing to do with chaos.

“Under the sun, in the world created by God, there is and always will be room for everyone, no matter how different we are. It is essential and problematic to understand the meaning of our existence in it. And let's not programmatically confuse the freedom of choices made in the private sphere with the “freedom” of imposing them as a norm in the public sphere. At the heart of nature lies not only the much-invoked freedom, but also, inseparable from it, the much-ignored responsibility. It's no secret that putting them in conflict has devastating effects both personally and communally. No matter how ideological we are, we cannot evade the implacable reality and the “moral law” that warns us every time we break it. Not by chance,” explained the spokesperson of the Romanian Patriarchate.

We remind you that Greece voted on Thursday, February 15, for same-sex marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex parents.

After the promulgation of this law, Greece will become the 37th country in the world, the 17th country in the European Union and the first Christian-Orthodox country to legalize adoption for same-sex parents. This despite the fact that the Orthodox Church vehemently opposed this law.

The adoption of the draft law was somehow expected in Greece, due to the support of several parties of the left opposition. But conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faced a rebellion from the most conservative wing of his party, New Democracy (ND), which opposed the reform. Comfortably re-elected last year, he made same-sex marriage a flagship measure of his second term.