"I am the door. By me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture." - John 10:9 At every parish where I have had the pleasure of attending services, there is always a small group of people who find their way all the way up to the church building but don't actually attend services. At one parish it was a group of male gypsies who talked on cellphones or smoked cigarettes. At another it was a few Protestant husbands who, though they never attended services, opened the parish doors for people as they filed in. At yet another parish the men stood in the narthex and chatted until it was time to receive and then got in line. Latin or Greek Catholic, Eastern or Oriental Orthodox I see the same small throng of men standing next to the front door, but not standing, sitting, or kneeling amongst the people. If it were me (and I can only speak for myself here) this option would be an unsavory one. The boredom would be immediate. The anxiety of som...
Good for Moldova. Bearing false witness is a scandal, and hurts the Church.
ReplyDeleteYou may like it or not, in Europe the Human Rights are indivisible. Moldova is on the way to become a member of the European Family and is no more part of the Soviet Union or the socalled "Holy Russia".
ReplyDeleteSeemed like a legitimate outcome. Perhaps the fine should have been bigger or some community serivce toward the LGTB community. The Bishop should be more careful with what he says. No one should be denied a job because they are gay.
ReplyDeleteEuropean Family? The folks that caved to Islamists complaints about Hirsi Ayaan Ali?
ReplyDeleteApparently the Moldovan gays don't believe in freedom of speech. May God protect our country from such intolerant "tolerance".
ReplyDeleteIf a Christian Heirarch is persecuted for preaching the truth about Godly sexuality and those acts that deviate from it, then God bless him. This, however, does not qualify for that. So, shame on the Bishop. It is one thing to uphold the moral teaching of the Church, but quite another to use such falsehoods as a scare tactic to incite fear and hatred.
ReplyDeleteEven if his ridiculous assertion that 92% of homosexual persons were HIV/AIDS patients were true, would that not call for compassion? Many diseases can be contracted through sexual contact; that is no reason to try and use them as a weapon against those who are afflicted with them. Real Christians, on the contrary, reach out to them, speaking the truth in love, and seeking to lessen their suffering or stigma, praying for them and urging them to "sin no more."
Schema-monk Theodore
Dr. Theodore: it is The Way that the bishop expressed himself..."assertion that 92% of homosexual persons were HIV/AIDS patients" is inexcusable.
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