Blamg the Ukrae Invasn on ... the Gays? - The Bulwark

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• IN SERMON, RSIAN CHURCH LEAR KIRILL LKS UKRAE WAR WH GAY PRI PARA
• RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'
• RSIAN CHURCH LEAR APPEARS TO BLAME GAY PRI PARAS FOR UKRAE WAR
• RSIA'S HIGHT RELIG AUTHORY JT COMPARED GAY MARRIAGE TO NAZI GERMANY
• AS PUT BOMBS CHILDREN, RSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH NAM THE ROOT OF UKRAE’S S: GAY PRI PARAS
• BLAMG THE UKRAE INVASN ON … THE GAYS?
• WHY A GAY RSIAN TEACHER LEFT HIS LIFE BEHD
• RSIAN ORTHODOX LEAR SAYS UKRAE VASN IS PART OF STGGLE AGAST ‘GAY PARAS’
• WAR UKRAE IS A 'METAPHYSIL' BATTLE AGAST A CIVILIZATN BUILT ON 'GAY PARAS,' RSIAN ORTHODOX LEAR SAYS

IN SERMON, RSIAN CHURCH LEAR KIRILL LKS UKRAE WAR WH GAY PRI PARA

Kirill was elected to the patriarchate January, the Patriarch of Rsian Orthodox Church, has blamed liberal wtern valu, particularly gay pri paras, for Rsia's vasn of Ukrae. The untri are offered a "tt of loyalty" by mands that they hold gay paras, said the lear of the Rsian church.

RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEAR BLAM INVASN ON UKRAE'S 'GAY PRI'

That's why orr to jo the club of those untri, you have to have a gay pri para, " said Kirill. "If humany accepts that s is not a vlatn of God's law, if humany accepts that s is a variatn of human behavr, the human civilisatn will end there, " he head of the #Rsian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said: "The war is gog on bee they don't want gay paras the Donbas.

RSIAN CHURCH LEAR APPEARS TO BLAME GAY PRI PARAS FOR UKRAE WAR

A major relig lear Rsia has e out support of the vasn of Ukrae and laid the blame on the support of gay rights.

In particular, he lled attentn to Ukrae's support of gay rights and the prence of gay pri paras, The Mosw Tim reported. "That's why orr to jo the club of those untri, you have to have a gay pri para. Patriarch Kirill, the lear of the Rsian Orthodox Church, on Sunday said that Ukrae's embrace of gay pri events was to blame for the recent vasn.

The head of Rsia’s Orthodox Church appeared to blame liberal Wtern valu — drawg particular attentn to gay pri paras — for Rsia’s vasn of Ukrae his Sunday sermon.

RSIA'S HIGHT RELIG AUTHORY JT COMPARED GAY MARRIAGE TO NAZI GERMANY

But Patriarch Kirill said the war is about “which si of God humany will be on” the divi between supporters of gay pri events — or the Wtern ernments that allow them — and their opponents Rsian-backed eastern Ukrae.

That's why orr to jo the club of those untri, you have to have a gay pri para, ” he said his Fivens Sunday sermon. The Rsian church lear characterized gay pri paras as a “loyalty tt” to Wtern ernments, which Ukrae’s breakaway republics have “fundamentally rejected. Cg Rsian-language media, the Tim reports that Kirill referred to “so-lled homosexual marriag” as a threat to fay valu.

AS PUT BOMBS CHILDREN, RSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH NAM THE ROOT OF UKRAE’S S: GAY PRI PARAS

Acrdg to the Tim, the Patriarch has ma siar parisons between marriage equaly and thorarianism the past; Kirill said a 2016 terview wh Rsia Today that homosexual unns were a form of “Soviet totalarianism” that threaten humany. While his print bombed children Ukrae, the patriarch of the Rsian Orthodox church ed his March 6 Sunday sermon to name the real source of the war started by Rsia agast s neighbor: Gay pri paras.

The tt is very simple and at the same time terrible — is the Gay Pri para. The mands on many to hold a gay para are a tt of their loyalty to the new world orr; and we know that if people or untri reject the mands, then they do not enter to that world orr, they bee strangers to .

Wh no reference to Rsia’s unprovoked aggrsn agast Ukrae and no sense of irony that his ments were livered wh a sermon ostensibly about fivens, the patriarch spoke of the “s” of Gay Pri. “Surely, there n be different opns about the Gay Pri paras and cricizg the events om a relig pot of view is also part of relig liberty. But Gay Pri paras were not the only peculiar thg on the patriarch’s md last Sunday.

BLAMG THE UKRAE INVASN ON … THE GAYS?

And that, too, is fundamentally about Gay Pri paras, the patriarch said. And Gay Pri paras are signed to monstrate that s is one of the legimate variatns of human behavr. “That is why orr to enter the club of those ‘ee’ untri, is necsary to hold a Gay Pri para.

WHY A GAY RSIAN TEACHER LEFT HIS LIFE BEHD

Not to make a polil statement ‘we are wh you, ’ not to sign any agreements, but to hold a Gay Pri para.

But a Sunday sermon, Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Rsian Orthodox Church, offered a startlg new explanatn that is sure to ronate wh the Sohrab Ahmari wg of the morn Amerin right: It was to save Eastern Ukrae om the gays. It’s very simple but also horrific: ’s a gay para.

RSIAN ORTHODOX LEAR SAYS UKRAE VASN IS PART OF STGGLE AGAST ‘GAY PARAS’

The mand to hold a gay para is fact a tt for loyalty to that powerful world, and we know that if people or untri rist this mand, they are exclud om that world and treated as alien.

Surely even relig believers who own on gay pri paras should agree that kidnappg and torturg people is worse. He did, however, return more than once to the evil of gay paras and to his claim that holdg such paras was a requirement for membership the “club” of powerful untri. The patriarch’s sistence that the war Ukrae is all about gay paras remd me of a brilliant Rsian-language poem someone shared wh me on Twter the other day, wrten by Rsian-Ukraian poet Artem Polezhaka late 2013 and tled “Reportage.

WAR UKRAE IS A 'METAPHYSIL' BATTLE AGAST A CIVILIZATN BUILT ON 'GAY PARAS,' RSIAN ORTHODOX LEAR SAYS

” The poem hilarly spoofs state-owned Rsian televisn’s hysteril reportg on the Euromaidan protts Kyiv: the reporter breathlsly reunts the creasgly grotque horrors he supposedly wns—a mélange that featur neo-Nazis, jihadists, looters, nnibals, and Jews who “drk Christian babi’ blood by the bucket”—but keeps g back to gay i. It ma me thk, too, of fairly mon claims by pro-Kreml nservativ the Uned Stat that the real reason the libs hate Put and Put’s Rsia is the homophobia.

Most recently, this argument was trotted out by polil mentator Richard Hanania a Substack post which argued that liberal el Ameri had viewed the Put regime wh relative difference until 2013, when Rsia “passed a law banng gay propaganda towards mors” ( realy, rtrictg any gay-themed ntent any place where mors uld see , cludg public events promotg gay rights), and Put began his transformatn to a Hollywood villa.

Were some Wtern progrsiv more censed by Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law than by the btal supprsn of peaceful protts, the cshg of the pennt media, the electn-riggg, and the rt of the Put regime’s systematic asslt on civil liberti? The untry still bans same-sex marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl, and only about one five people (siar to the numbers Rsia) believ that homosexualy should be accepted by society. However, for all s problems, Ukrae is sufficiently hospable to ee exprsn that thoands of people have been able to march unr rabow flags year to year— ntrast to Rsia, where attempts to hold such events have end vlence om both police and anti-gay vigilant.