Comments on the Greek Clergy Association’s announcement on gay marriage and adoptions in Greece

Who is right, the Holy Scripture and the Fathers or today’s cassock-wearers: The degeneration of the clergy through an announcement of their association

 

 

From this platform, it has been said not a few times that the principal culprits for the evils that afflict society are not only the politicians but also the clergy of every rank (these concern us more).

The Holy Association of Clergy of Greece, on the occasion of the decision of the Council of State concerning the marriage of same-sex couples and the possibility of adoption by them, published an announcement in which, among other things, it also says the following: “Never (the homosexuals) did they consider that the Orthodox Church had any hostility toward them. On the contrary, many of them, 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 among us clergy who are spiritual fathers know many such cases.”

[Full translation: https://orthodoxmiscellany.blogspot.com/2026/03/announcement-on-gay-marriage-and.html]

With the above words, the clergy, through their association, declare that homosexuals believe in God and regard the Church not as their accuser but as their friend. Of course, the Church does not hate and accepts all of us, PROVIDED that we repent. And “I repent” means for all of us that I stop sinning; therefore, in this case, do I stop being homosexual? But if we repent and yet refuse to change, and indeed in regard to our most grave sins, what is the meaning of church attendance? How are we friends of God while nullifying His commandments? How the Church (not the association of clergy, in which the clergy speak as trade unionists and state employees who do not wish to be persecuted, rather than as clergy) stands against the very grave sin of homosexuality we see in the following:

The Apostle Paul in his epistles:

Romans 1:26–27: He describes “dishonorable passions,” where women and men, because of their unbelief, abandon the natural relation for homosexual acts.

1 Corinthians 6:9–10: He mentions the “arsenokoitai” and “malakoi” (terms interpreted as those participating in homosexual acts) among those who will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Timothy 1:9–10: He includes the “arsenokoitai” in a list of transgressors of the law.

St. Basil the Great writes: “From those who are drunken come the alterations of nature, seeking in the male the female, and in the female the male.” When the fear of God is lost, this “anchor,” as he calls it, “when we depart from the commandments of God,” then follows the “abandonment by God,” and all desires enter in, and indeed the “intensification of carnal desire.” The “satanic doctrine” of the denial of God is followed by a “diabolical life.”

St. John Chrysostom, in his Fifth Homily, interpreting verses 18–27 of the first chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, emphasizes that the change of the natural use of sex into that which is against nature is a “passion of dishonor,” as the Apostle Paul writes. Those who commit these “dishonorable passions” have reached a strange frenzy, “they have rushed into this strange madness,” inasmuch as they abandoned the natural enjoyment and came to that which is against nature, and have even insulted nature itself.

And the holy father continues, saying the following terrible things: “But if you ask, from where does this power of desire come? The answer is: from the abandonment by God. And the abandonment by God—from where? From the lawlessness of those who abandoned Him, committing indecency, men with men.”

Another great Father of the Church, St. Cyril of Alexandria, writes (“Denunciatory discourse against eunuchs” 23–27), demonstrating that today’s clergy are unworthy of the cassock they wear: “These are to depart far from the sacred enclosures and to be driven away from the holy assemblies [of the Church] as an abominable defilement and God-hated. For, having with the most shameful and worst will altered and transformed the good and divine work into evil and a condemned doctrine, and having compelled spiritual eunuchry to serve the forbidden act, they are worthy not only to receive the punishment of legal judgment, but also to be altogether driven away into the so-called outer darkness of hell, according to the evangelical and apostolic judgment. For concerning them Moses said: ‘One crushed or mutilated shall not enter into the Church of the Lord.’”

We therefore ask: Holy Scripture and the Fathers consider those who are unrepentant, and also those who, despite their repentance, consciously remain homosexual, as abandoned by God, without hope of salvation, and for this reason they teach that they must be expelled from the Church. How then do today’s unionized clergy act in the opposite way, and not only this, but also teach the flock to imitate them? How do they publish positions that have no relation to the teaching of the Church? At last, as faithful, we must raise a wall against anyone who distorts the word of the Church!

- Adamantios Tsakiroglou

 

Greek source: https://eugenikos.blogspot.com/2026/03/blog-post_95.html