Singer Soloviy urges UGCC to accept more parishioners from LGBT community
Khrystyna Soloviy. Photo: screenshot from Maria Yefrosinina's YouTube channel
Singer Khrystyna Soloviy, previously embroiled in scandal over filming an LGBT-themed music video in the Greek Catholic Church of Apostle Andrew in Lviv, in an interview with Maria Yefrosinina, expressed her wish for Greek Catholics to accept more LGBT parishioners, stating that "Jesus said – come to me all."
According to Soloviy, she comes from a very religious family, her great-grandfather was a deacon at three parishes. Previously, the singer was a member of the Order of Saint Philomena, where she prayed to "become the Virgin Mary", and for God to "take her as his wife". However, at some point, she stopped praying, and, according to her, "nothing happened". After spending two years as a parishioner of the "Jehovah's Witnesses", Soloviy became an atheist.
Commenting on filming the LGBT-themed music video in the Apostle Andrew Greek Catholic Church, Soloviy said that she perceived the public outrage from Greek Catholics as "free PR".
Elsewhere in the interview, Soloviy stated that she was "taught to hate russians from childhood." Whether she was taught this in the UGCC was not specified.
Earlier, the UOJ reported that after the harsh reaction of Greek Catholics to Soloviy's filming of an LGBT-themed music video in the Apostle Andrew Church, gay couples staged a flash mob of kisses near it.
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