{"id":213752,"date":"2024-03-15T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/two-lawmakers-who-backed-same-sex-marriage-banned-from-rites-by-greek-church-higher-ups\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:34","slug":"two-lawmakers-who-backed-same-sex-marriage-banned-from-rites-by-greek-church-higher-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/two-lawmakers-who-backed-same-sex-marriage-banned-from-rites-by-greek-church-higher-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Lawmakers Who Backed Same-Sex Marriage Banned From Rites By Greek Church Higher-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Orthodox Church of Greece reacted strongly to this February\u2019s passage of a historic bill allowing same-sex civil marriage,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2024\/03\/06\/church-authorities-in-greece-slap-religious-ban-on-local-politicians-who-backed-same-sex-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banning two lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0who voted in favor of the measure. The bishopric of Greece\u2019s northwestern island of Corfu condemned the two for committing \u201cthe deepest spiritual and moral error,\u201d saying in a statement, \u201cFor us, these two (local) lawmakers cannot consider themselves active members of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reform, proposed by Prime Minister Mitsotakis\u2019 government and vehemently opposed by the Church, made Greece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldreligionnews.com\/religion-news\/christianity\/eastern-orthodoxy\/we-are-no-longer-invisible-greece-is-the-first-orthodox-christian-country-to-say-yes-to-same-sex-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the first Orthodox Christian country<\/a>\u00a0to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill grants full parental rights to married same-sex partners with children while forbidding gay couples to achieve parenthood through surrogate mothers in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>The bishopric\u2019s statement also indicated that the two lawmakers should be excluded from communion, not attend Church events and not be granted formal honors by clergy at official events or parish gatherings, adding, \u201cWe exhort them to repent for their impropriety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Corfu bishopric cited another lawmaker who voted against the law as \u201cthe kind of politician, irrespective of other convictions, that we need in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With its condemnatory statement, the Corfu bishopric followed the lead of the Piraeus bishopric. Earlier this year, Bishop Seraphim of Piraeus called an extraordinary meeting at which local church officials passed a resolution to expel all lawmakers who voted in favor of same-sex marriage, calling them \u201cpartners of the archetypal evil\u201d and \u201caccomplices of the chief serpent in the deterioration of the work of salvation and the gospel message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued, \u201c[W]e break our communion with those who voted against the divine Law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Seraphim is a bitter enemy of homosexuality, saying, without basis, that it causes cancer. He has also blamed the \u201cinternational Zionist monster\u201d for the same-sex bill.<\/p>\n<p>The first same-sex wedding under the new law was celebrated in early March in southern Athens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldreligionnews.com\/issues\/two-lawmakers-who-backed-same-sex-marriage-banned-from-rites-by-greek-church-higher-ups\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Orthodox Church of Greece reacted strongly to this February\u2019s passage of a historic bill allowing same-sex civil marriage,\u00a0banning two lawmakers\u00a0who voted in favor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337367,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213752\/revisions\/337367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}