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Contents:

• FIRST GREEK ORTHODOX BAPTISM FOR CHILD OF GAY COUPLE GREECE
• GAY MARRIAGE AND EASTERN ORTHODOXY
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND ORTHODOX, ‘SNER’?
• “FIRST OPENLY GAY BAPTISM THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH”
• GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH PROTTS BAPTISM OF CELEBRY GAY COUPLE’S CHILDREN
• METROPOLAN OF GLYFADA CLAIMS HE WAS UNAWARE OF GAY BAPTISM
• GREECE'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS FY CHURCH AND STATE
• CAN YOU BE GAY AND ORTHODOX, ‘SNER’?
• HAVE YOUR IAL GAY WEDDG GREECE

FIRST GREEK ORTHODOX BAPTISM FOR CHILD OF GAY COUPLE GREECE

Due to the e of the word “partner” homosexual disurse, we jt want to ensure that you are ed referrg to a partner who is of the oppose sex. Evanggelos Bois and Peter Dundas, both of Greek scent, beme the first gay uple to hold a Greek Orthodox Baptism for their children Greece on Saturday.

GAY MARRIAGE AND EASTERN ORTHODOXY

Greek Orthodox Baptism of gay uple’s children signals “progrs and learship”.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND ORTHODOX, ‘SNER’?

The issue of gay marriage is no exceptn. As Orthodox Christians, there n be no doubt that gay relatnships are ntrary to the created orr, and to marriage as a sacrament/mystery as unrstood by the Holy Fathers. However, is ls clear how we should rpond to the polil qutns beg raised by gay “marriage.

In the articl I have been teractg wh Christian thkers (both Orthodox and non-Orthodox) who embody a number of perspectiv on gay marriage. The first article is one that I wrote for Christian Voice tled, Why Gay ‘Marriage’ is a Public Threat (part 1).

“FIRST OPENLY GAY BAPTISM THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH”

In this article, I teracted wh Freri Mathew-Green, who has raised some legimate qutns about whether or not Christians should be volved anti-gay activism.

I suggt that although our llg as Christians is not to force everyone to act ways nsistent wh Christian moraly, the move to legalize gay “marriage” reprents a public threat that, the name of Christian chary, should be risted. Gay marriage is th a public ncern, bee affects not only homosexuals but also the rt of the populatn. In the follow-up article on the same topic, I ntue my rponse to Freri Mathew-Green by monstratg that Christians will directly suffer once gay marriage is troduced.

GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH PROTTS BAPTISM OF CELEBRY GAY COUPLE’S CHILDREN

It is te that many people do not realize how same-sex “marriage” will lead to the persecutn of Christians, but the article Why Gay ‘Marriage’ is a Public Threat (part 2), I have monstrated why this is not an empty ncern.

Still — some may wonr — is there really a lot that Orthodox Christians n say about gay “marriage” that will be persuasive to those who do not hold our theocentric worldview?

The impasse of munitn that persists the gay marriage bate has left some Christians spectg that genue dialogue wh unbelievers about the meang of marriage is futile. I have attempted to articulate the problem wh this posn my Colson Center article Gay Marriage and Creatnal Realism. In the se of gay marriage, an implic nomalism is seen the turn om teleology towards a type of dive nstctnism, which ethics are rced to a petn creatn between the wills of both God and man.

METROPOLAN OF GLYFADA CLAIMS HE WAS UNAWARE OF GAY BAPTISM

In Gay Marriage and Creatnal Realism, I have tried to monstrate that once a nomalist amework is operatnal (even on an implic level), all we n do is retreat om the public nversatn, or else make a nuisance of ourselv by tryg to enter the public nversatn armed only wh handfuls of Scripture referenc.

E., a non-nomalist) approach to the gay marriage issue look like?

Fally, I have attempted to brg the discsn up to date my recent asssment of the wners and losers of the Supreme Court’s recent lg on gay marriage. Kefalas – about beg gay and Orthodox.

GREECE'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS FY CHURCH AND STATE

Although I reject any attempt to blame the Church for dog this purposefully, the Church’s strong statements agast civil marriage eedom have no doubt ntributed to youth qutng whether to live or die, to save their fai om the pa and sufferg of livg wh a gay or lbian child. Do you feel you are ‘sner, ’ as the Church suggts, bee you are gay? For the overwhelmg majory of people who intify as gay or lbian, there is no choice; there was no choice for me.

Do you believe you n be gay and Greek Orthodox? Beg gay is an important part of who I am, but do not fe me; how I live my life do fe me and that is what is important when to beg Greek Orthodox. Beg gay do not prevent me om amplifyg God’s love.

Where do you thk gay people stand the Church, and how do you thk parishners and the Church treat the muny? In many plac, and I know this is not the se every place, I have found that Church lears and prits do their bt to show unndnal love, to embrace everyone, cludg gay and lbian parishners. The Metropolan of Glyfada, Antons, claims that he was unaware of all of the tails regardg the Greek Orthodox baptism that Archbishop of Ameri Elpidophoros nducted for the children of a gay uple on Saturday.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND ORTHODOX, ‘SNER’?

Metropolan of Glyfada claims he did not know parents of children were gay rponse to uproar over Greek Orthodox baptism. The Metropolan claims that Archbishop Elpidophoros did not rm him that the parents of the children were a gay uple when he requted permissn to baptize the children a msage to the Holy Synod. Tragilly, the same parish ntue to refe this sacrament and betiful re to lovg gay upl who seek to solidify their relatnship the ey of their fah muny, fay and iends.

It was a unique weddg bee a gay uple was crowned wh glory and honor by the hands of a Christian prit a new, clive translatn of the Byzante weddg lurgy.

ATHENS (Rters) - Greece’s first gay weddgs were held on Tuday when two upl, abetted by a sympathetic lol mayor, fied the threat of crimal charg and the wrath of the Orthodox church to tie the knot on a ty Aegean gay and one lbian uple took advantage of the failure of Greek civil law to specify genr matrimony and took vows at municipal offic on the southeast Aegean island of Tilos.

HAVE YOUR IAL GAY WEDDG GREECE

“We are very moved and happy that we found someone to make our dream e te, ” said Evangelia Vlami, one of the newlyweds and spokwoman for Greece’s Gay and Lbian Communy (OLKE). A Greek Orthodox prit scribed their homosexualy as a curse and the mayor of a neighborg island said the sight of same-sex upl would upset “good fai” on their told Rters her weddg took place early the morng and two gay men followed soon after. “There is no legal amework allowg homosexual marriag Greece, ” Jtice Mister Sotiris Hatzigakis said a statement.

“Attempts to perform civil ceremoni among gay upl are illegal and such ‘marriag’ void. ”CHURCH OPPOSITIONBut OLKE said hoped the weddgs would help change attus towards homosexuals Greece, which has long preferred to turn a bld eye to homosexualy rather than acknowledge gay rights.

”While many European Unn untri have tablished legislatn allowg gay marriage or “registered partnership” rights to same-sex upl, neher are allowed Netherlands was the first EU untry to offer full civil marriage rights to gay upl 2001 and Belgium followed 2003. Spa legalized gay marriage 2005, spe fierce opposn om the Roman Catholic Church.