Metropolitan of Kythira: Legalising same-sex marriage to bring God’s wrath

Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira. Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr

Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira and Antikythera believes that the legalisation of same-sex marriages by the Greek government will bring the wrath of God on the country.

Metropolitan Seraphim urged the authorities to "respect the Divine and Constitutional laws concerning the moral and spiritual life of the People, its unbreakable sacred institutions and its age-old ecclesiastical and national traditions".

He also emphasised that the government must "the sacred rights of defenceless children, which lead to adoption, the human rights of children, who in infancy and immature childhood are subjected to compulsory sexual education, with all that it entails, and those determined under the Constitution for protection of male and female students from intra-school violence."

Metropolitan Seraphim concluded, "Let the plans to legalize the ‘marriages’ of same-sex ‘couples’ and the resulting childbearing be thwarted because they will attract God’s wrath."

As reported, Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus said that homosexuality causes cancer and death.

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