Romanian Orthodox priests gather signatures for Constitution amendment against same-sex marriages

[Old Union Guy]

Romanian Orthodox priests gather signatures for Constitution amendment against same-sex marriages
http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-orthodox-priests-gather-signatures-for-constitution-amendment-against-same-sex-marriages/162571/

Not that same sex marriage is legal in Romania, or that there's a "constitutional" argument for it.

... The Romanian Patriarch Daniel said that the believers “must support the Church’s effort to protect the natural, traditional and universal family, and to resist in front of some new family models which consider that the natural woman-man union would be only a model among others,” reports Basilica.ro, the Romanian Patriarchy’s news service.

According to him, the family is in a fragile and difficult situation, as some think that the traditional family model is outdated. ...

Emphasis added.

These guy see the writing on the wall.

[saltpoint]

1. Evidently the hungry have been fed,

the naked clothed, the prisoners visited, the strangers sheltered, and the poor uplifted where these priests hold sway, freeing them to assemble politically for mean-spirited discrimination.

[dlwickham]

3. +1

[cheapdate]

2. One of many reasons I'm not a member of the orthodox church.