ROC told how will baptize sex-changing citizens
The chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, a permanent member of the Holy Synod, Hilarion (Alfeev), stated that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) condemns gender reassignment operations, especially when it comes to adolescents. The well-known theologian, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Volokolamsky, Vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, reported this on air "Russia-24".
- clarified Metropolitan Hilarion.
The metropolitan noted that in Western countries they inspire children with a specific attitude to gender, there is a biological gender, and there is a gender that children can choose for themselves. He compared such acts to crimes for which criminal liability should be brought. Since the children, in his opinion, first need to grow up, and only then they let them decide how to live on.
As for the adult people, and the Metropolitan emphasized this, the Russian Orthodox Church in any case does not recognize the fact that sex change through surgery is a fait accompli. Never.
The metropolitan explained that if a man who has become a woman comes to church and wants to undergo the rite of the most important sacrament of baptism in Christianity, he will be baptized as a man. If a woman who has become a man comes to church for the same reason, she will be baptized as a woman. And there were no other options, and never will be.
Sex reassignment operation ... is a crime against God
- clarified Metropolitan Hilarion.
The metropolitan noted that in Western countries they inspire children with a specific attitude to gender, there is a biological gender, and there is a gender that children can choose for themselves. He compared such acts to crimes for which criminal liability should be brought. Since the children, in his opinion, first need to grow up, and only then they let them decide how to live on.
As for the adult people, and the Metropolitan emphasized this, the Russian Orthodox Church in any case does not recognize the fact that sex change through surgery is a fait accompli. Never.
The metropolitan explained that if a man who has become a woman comes to church and wants to undergo the rite of the most important sacrament of baptism in Christianity, he will be baptized as a man. If a woman who has become a man comes to church for the same reason, she will be baptized as a woman. And there were no other options, and never will be.
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