Source: Orthodox Clergy Association of Houston and Southeast Texas We, the Orthodox clergy of Houston and Southeast Texas, are compelled by our responsibilities before God to speak out plainly against the rebellion against God’s created order that we see being waged on both the local and national level. It is God who created the two […]
Statement on Homosexuality (from 1984)
The following information originally appeared in The Word, January 1984, pp. 6-11. The Word is the official news magazine of the Antiochian Archdiocese. Published monthly (with the exception of July and August) the magazine circulates to the households of all members of the Antiochian Archdiocese and other subscribers including libraries and seminaries. The position of […]
Dishonorable Passions
Compiled by Chris Banescu For those who want to ‘re-imagine’ Christian morality. St. Paul the Apostle – “Because of this did God give them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females did change their natural function into that which is against nature; and in like manner also the males having left the natural use […]
Statement on the Comments of Fr. Robert Arida on Homosexuality
by the Brotherhood of the Orthodox Clergy Association of Houston and SE Texas In response to Fr. Robert Arida’s recent article, which was posted on the OCA’s Wonder blog, there have been many eloquent rebuttals. We do not wish to attempt to reproduce those critiques here, but we do wish to underscore some of the more important […]
Idaho City Threatens to Arrest Ministers Who Refuse to Perform Same-Sex Weddings
“The other side insisted this would never happen – that pastors would not have to perform same-sex marriages,” Tedesco told me. “The reality is – it’s already happening.”
EP: Cohabitation of Same-Sex Couples Contrary to Gospel
The following is an excerpt from the Message of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the 42nd Clergy-Laity Congress in Philadelphia, delivered July 7, 2014. Our Lord, through His first miracle in Canaan, Galilee, blessed the holy sacrament of marriage, in which two persons of different sexes come together to unite into one body: […]
Canada On Verge of Banning Christians from Professional Life
by Lea Singh This is a ‘soft’ persecution of Christians – expelling them from, well, just about everything under the guise of ‘fairness’ and it is what is being prepared here in the United States. The laws against discrimination are being deliberately subverted, and specifically for this. The elevation of perversion to ‘civil rights’ […]
Statement by Moscow Patriarchate on Gay Marriages in France and Great Britain
Same-sex unions have continued to be legalized in Europe. Recently, respective bills have been approved by the lower chambers of the French and British parliaments. It was done not only in defiance of the opinion of a part of deputies but also against the background of mass protest manifestations of citizens. These legislative steps show […]
The Hypocrisy of the ‘Christian’ Left
Fr. John Whiteford Responds to Dr. David Dunn In a Huffington Post article, David Dunn has pointed out what he sees as hypocrisy on the part of Christian conservatives: It is the view that Christians should vote their values, and this means we should legislate moral evils into oblivion. Thus if we believe life begins […]