"Greece is expected to legalize same-sex weddings this week, in a vote due to be held the day after Valentine’s Day. Not everyone is feeling the love, however, and the Greek Orthodox church has become an outspoken and powerful opponent of the changes."
"Even though the bill isn’t forcing the priests to marry gay people and has nothing to do with the church, it is church officials who have been the loudest opponents, with bishops appearing on television programs making outdated and false accusations, calling homosexuality a mental illness and suggesting that gay men and women are sick and only the church can heal them."
"Indicative of the hostility towards the measure, the far-right Spartans party leader, Vassilis Stigas, told parliament that the bill was tantamount to 'opening the window' to paedophiles as he urged ND MPs to vote against it, while the bishop of Piraeus claimed that homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' and a cause of cancer. 'Google it and you will see,' he told stunned interviewers on Skai TV."
@wdlindsy sad that when my eyes first scanned that and saw "opening the window' to paedophiles" I just assumed this was some MAGA fool ranting about some new Democrat legislation.
If "the church can heal them" then why are they not "healed". Why isn't the church doing their job, why aren't they doing what they claim they can do, why aren't they healing people?
It's no wonder so many people have left organized religion. It's just a club for people who hate.