Queering the Church: Greek Orthodox Bishops Pushing the GloboHomo Agenda

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Originally appeared at: Monomakhos

Before you think that I’m trying to be inflammatory, please know that this isn’t a topic I wanted to write about.

Not one bit.  Why?  “Because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:23).  That’s why.  That means you, that means me, that also means the guy behind the tree.  

As a rule, Christians recognize our own sinfulness and therefore we try not to throw stones. 

However, there is a problem with this formula when it comes to the celebration of sexual sins.  We’ve had our noses rubbed in hedonism for decades now.  We would like to avert our gaze.  If fact we are desperate to look the other way.  Unfortunately, we don’t have that prerogative.  To paraphrase Lenin, “You may not be interested in the Revolution comrade, but the Revolution is interested in you“.

Several years ago, I remember reading an alarming piece in OrthodoxNetwork Blog, entitled “Pushing the Gay Agenda in the Greek Archdiocese” which can be accessed here:  Here 

Still, it didn’t portend anything or so I thought.  I viewed it as a critique of a homosexual subculture within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, merely that, and nothing more.  After all, the primates who constituted SCOBA had spoken resolutely about the growing homosexual juggernaut.  

However, what a difference fourteen years makes. Now, it is more openly proclaimed and worse, the narrative has spread to the Ecumenical Patriarchate as a whole, and not merely the GOA.

Don’t believe me?  Look at the picture above.  

For those who don’t know, Patriarch Bartholomew just had an audience with Stephanos Kasselakis, the newly-elected leader of SYRIZA, the main opposition party in Greece.  SYRIZA is the largest leftist party in Greece.  Like all bigwigs within this movement, Kasselakis is an atheist.  Why should he care what Bartholomew thinks?  Worse, why does Bartholomew allow him an audience?  Is he going to preach the Gospel to him and hope he mends his ways? 

Doubtful.

Kasselakis is an open homosexual.  One who wants to “marry” his partner, Tyler MacBeth.  Unfortunately for Kasselakis, Greece doesn’t allow gay “marriage,” so he decided to come to America and get married in the Hamptons surrounded by all the swells.  Here

So what does this picture of the meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew and Mr Kasselakis tell us? 

For one thing, it tells us there is a lack of seriousness on Bartholomew’s part.  For another, this is yet another example of latter’s desire to always be in the limelight, even if that means taking a photo with a second-tier celebrity.  Kasselakis is not a head of state.  In fact, there’s very little chance of him even being elected prime minister.  I don’t say this because he’s a homosexual but because the Right is on the ascendant in Greece.  

Generally speaking, this violates protocols.  The Pope, as an example, only has photos taken with heads of state.  So, this was nothing more than a photo-op for Bartholomew, someone whose never-ending desperation for attention is showcased on the international scene yet again.  He is not too picky when it comes to getting his picture taken.  (Notice that Kasselakis wasn’t wearing a tie.)

This is all rather cringy if you ask me.  And as if that’s not bad enough, Bartholomew is telegraphing his acceptance of homosexuality.  I’m sorry, but that’s the only way to read this.

Archbishop Elpidophoros is fully on board with the queering of the Orthodox Church, as well.  How so?  He invited Kasselakis and MacBeth to give a talk at St Demetrios High School in Astoria.  Unfortunately for Elpidophoros, this caused a major scandal.  According to our friends over at Helleniscope, parents burned the phone lines down at 79th St, demanding answers.  Many even pulled their kids out of school for the entire day, others took them out at noon, right before Kasselakis was going to give his talk.  Here

So, getting back to my point:  most of us don’t care about what people do in their private lives.  And even if we did, we couldn’t overturn Obergefell, the Supreme Court decision which legalized homosexual unions, no matter how hard we try.  It’s over as far as the secular sphere is concerned.  Water under the bridge and all that.  On the other hand, Christians have a higher allegiance.  Just because the world is OK with some awful happenstance, doesn’t mean that the Church should be OK with it.  Quite the contrary. 

Greek Orthodox Christians should be able to expect that their hierarchs, whatever their individual failings, are not going to bless that which is sinful.  

For what it’s worth, it doesn’t appear that Bartholomew was at all fazed when he met with Kasselakis.  The following is from an interview that The National Herald conducted with Kasselakis:

“TNH”: You are married to a man. Do you think the majority of the Greek people are ready to accept your type of marriage?

St. Kasselakis: Yes, they are.

“TNH”: There have been cases when some people, including hierarchs and priests, approached you and told you, Mr. Kasselakis, what are you doing?

St. Kasselakis: No, no one ever. The opposite. And at the meeting with His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, I told him about my partner and he reacted normally, there were no qualms. I expressed my desire to go to the Phanar and the Patriarch said with great joy, on the Epiphany.

OK then.

That ship has sailed.  What we can do, however, is prevent the further queering of the Orthodox Church.  As other sites have noted, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese is partnering with their friends over at Fordham to address issues having to do with Rainbow Marxism.  Here’s the advertisement for the symposium at Fordham which was put out by The Orthodox Observer, the official journalistic organ of the GOA:  Here

I guess when all is said and done, it’s all coming up rainbows –er, I mean roses–as far as the GOA and the LGBTQ+ agenda is concerned.  

That doesn’t mean that the rest of us have to take this lying down.   

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