Tag: Homosexuality
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Fr. Josiah Trenham: The Orthodox Church and Same-Sex Marriage [VIDEO]
Fr. Josiah Trenham pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Christian Church in Riverside, California offers a two part talk responding to the August, 2010 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in California. Fr. Josiah’s talk was given in August, 2010. Source: St. Andrew Orthodox Church Youtube Page
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Fr. Alexander F. C. Webster: A Gauntlet from Archpriest Alexis Vinogradov, Wappingers Falls, NY
Just when we begin to wonder whether some of the recent musings of OCA priests and laity on homosexuality may not be what they seem, along comes another one that raises the rhetorical ante and reminds us that we are, indeed, whether we desire it or not, engaged in spiritual warfare. In a bizarre, presumably…
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Bp. Nicholas DiMarzio: Catholic Church Must Influence Marriage Debate
So far the only Orthodox bishops offering more than pro-forma defenses of the moral tradition are Met. Job and Bp. Michael of the OCA. Below is an example of how moral authority is rightly exercised. Roman Catholic Bp. Nicholas DiMarzio offers a very reasoned and accessible analysis and defense of the major points in the…
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George Weigel. No Homophobia: A Reminder About the Totalitarian Temptation
Highlight: “Americans will say, “It can’t happen here.” But it can, and it may. Before the ink was dry on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature on New York’s new marriage law, the New York Times published an editorial decrying the “religious exemptions” that had been written into the marriage law at the last moment. Those exemptions…
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Sergey Khudiev: Let Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay
Source: Pavmir Translated from Russian by Fr. Andrew Phillips. The article by Archpriest Robert Arida ‘Response To Myself is of interest, but not so much because it shows a certain approach, which is above all characteristic of contemporary liberal Protestantism. Convinced atheists, Muslims and Christians of various confessions have something in common – they all…