Announcement on Gay Marriage and Homosexual Adoptions

Announcement of the Holy Association of Clergy of Greece [ISKE] regarding the decision of the Council of State concerning the marriage of same-sex couples and the possibility of adoption.

Athens, March 23, 2026

 

 

It constitutes a central news item in the mass media that the Council of State ratified the legality of the marriage of couples of the same sex and gave them the green light for adoption. Certainly, Greece, as a secular state, is able to proceed to enact laws that run counter to religious rules, such as the present one. However, it is regrettable that the Council of State did not take into account the age-old tradition, religious and social, of this land, but also the conscience and the sentiment of the Greek people.

Such kinds of legislative measures do not respond to the needs and concerns of Greek society, such as the demographic problem and the low birth rate that afflict our land, but constitute an imitation of practices of certain Western societies, which in recent years proceeded to similar legislative measures, such as the attempt to impose and prioritize social gender over biological sex, having truly lost the measure and the limits, as our people would also say.

It does not befit us and is not proper for us to ape models that are transferred uncritically into Greek society. Indeed, an attempt is even made to impose them, and the result, instead of uniting, divides. Greek society was always inclusive, it cared for the “we,” whereas now, with all these novel theories of identity that we mentioned above, it is led to the “us” and “them”: on the one hand the heterosexuals and on the other the homosexuals. There always were, there are, and there will be homosexuals. They never considered that the Orthodox Church had any hostility toward them. On the contrary, many of them, both well-known and not well-known, believed and believe deeply in God, place in God the hope of their salvation, lived and live with confession and repentance. Those of us among the clergy who are spiritual fathers know many such cases.

This is precisely also the crucial issue of the said decision of the Council of State: the inability for it to become normality. We will not put forward complex philosophical arguments, nor is it necessary for someone to have particular scientific knowledge in order to demonstrate that any marriage whatsoever between couples of the same sex can never be, literally and essentially, a marriage, even if its proponents call it such. The biological order, which exists in nature, testifies that the union of same-sex couples may be contractual and bureaucratic or on the level of emotional sentiments, but never a marriage, because it cannot lead to the biological acquisition of children, who would be the combination of the genetic material of these two persons who entered into a marital union. For this reason, the advocates of these theories proposed adoption as a solution. However, if there is talk of defending the rights of homosexuals, who will defend the rights of the infants who will be adopted by homosexual couples and who will be deprived either of the paternal or the maternal model? Who will ask them? Who will speak about the rights of the surrogate mothers, who will be used for this purpose? Who will speak about the instrumentalization, many times, of poor women, who will be called to bear children who will be given for adoption to homosexual couples?

Let us not overlook that the Christian tradition understands the family as a communion of persons, founded upon the relationship of man and woman, which is blessed and sanctified within the sacrament of Marriage. Within this framework, the upbringing of children is connected with the complementarity of the two sexes and the all-around development of the personality of the child. With the adoption of children by couples of the same sex, we will see persons growing up in the social sphere with a host of problems and great imbalance in comparison with children who come from conventional families, as relevant studies in the USA have shown.

We see, therefore, that this entire undertaking has neither biological nor social foundations. It is based upon a delusion in which same-sex couples are held fast, who cannot understand that biology and the natural order are not ideology and emotionalism, but a tangible and concrete reality, which no living being can transcend. Biology, the natural functions of the human body, constitute destiny; they express an inexorable necessity and lawfulness, which no one can surpass and overcome, however many legislative acts some supreme Council may legitimize.

FROM THE HOLY ASSOCIATION OF CLERGY OF GREECE

 

Greek source: https://iersynklellados.blogspot.com/2026/03/blog-post.html