Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations (DECR) Metropolitan Kirill thinks that if society stops considering homosexuality a sin, the next step will be general excuse of various sexual perversions.‘Moral is either absolute or it does not exist. If you excuse homosexuality, why not to excuse pedophilia?’ Metropolitan Kirill stated in an interview published on Thursday by German magazine Spiegel.
When the journalist pointed to a ‘great difference’ between homosexuals and pedophiles as the latter violate ‘personal freedom’ raping children, Metropolitan Kirill said that it will be explained in several years that ’12-year-old girls were considered children before, but now they develop much faster’.
’20 years ago nobody could imagine that Germany would legalize homosexual marriages. However, they get used to it by now. It is a matter of principle. There is one moral nature’, the Moscow Patriarchate’s representative noted.
He reminded that the Bible calls homosexuality ‘a sin’. However, he stressed that the Church did not condemn gays and was against ‘persecuting or insulting these people’.
‘But why promote the sin? Gay-parade is an intrusive display of depravity. Thus we can successfully promote any other sin, as is done on TV. It vitiates public morality. The task of the Church is to say that sin is sin. Otherwise, the Church is not needed’, the DECR chairman believes.
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