Complete article here.(Orthodox Biz) - Globally, Orthodox Christianity is known to be highly conservative concerning what is frequently referred to as "traditional Christian morality." In Europe, for example, more progressive and liberal elements of society spare no effort in attacking the Church as a bastion of traditionalist repression, especially concerning homosexuality.
Ironically, however, in the United States an image seems to be growing of the Orthodox Church as more liberal towards sexual sins than, for example, the Evangelical denominations. Quite a few people, judging by chatter on the Internet, are getting the impression that Orthodoxy is similar to the Episcopal Church in respect to moral issues.
Part of this confusion stems from the book Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell. This book, published in 1994, asserted that certain Greek Orthodox medieval rituals were really ecclesiastical blessings of homosexual unions. Boswell especially singled out the Greek Orthodox Rite known as adelphopoiesis or "brother-making," as one such example...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Pushing the Gay Agenda in the Greek Archdiocese
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This is absolutely absurd. I've never heard of this book but I will pray for the people who may have been misguided by its content. Thank you for posting this.
ReplyDeleteThe idea is to get footholds into groups that have traditionally been in opposition and slowly open a crack wider and wider until no one notices there was ever a wall up in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAs a society we trend towards more "freedom." As a result we grow more permissive about behavior we once deemed offensive in the name of equality and at the expense of heretofore mutually held values.