Patriarch Kirill: Conflict in Ukraine is a Battle Against a Godless International Order Built on ‘Gay Pride Parades’

• Patriarch Kirill: Conflict in Ukraine is a Battle Against a Godless International Order Built on ‘Gay Pride Parades’
  by Chris Menahan, InformationLiberation
  Patriarch Kirill, the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, said Sunday that the conflict in Donbas is a “metaphysical” battle against a godless international order that rewards governments which embrace sin and punishes those who embrace God’s laws.
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  “For eight years there have been attempts to destroy what exists in the Donbass,” Kirill said. “And in the Donbass there is rejection, a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power.”
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  “Today there is such a test for the loyalty of this government, a kind of pass to that “happy” world — the world of excess consumption — the world of visible ‘freedom.’ Do you know what this test is? The test is very simple and at the same time terrible — this is a gay parade. The demands on many to hold a gay parade are a test of loyalty to that very powerful world, and we know that if people or countries reject these demands, then they do not enter into that world, they become strangers to it,” he said. The Week has more:
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  Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, a long-time ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that the conflict in Donbas is about “a fundamental rejection of the so-called values that are offered today by those who claim world power.”
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  The “test” of which side you are on, said Kirill, is whether your country is willing to hold gay pride parades. “In order to enter the club of those countries, it is necessary to hold a gay pride parade. Not to make a political statement, ‘we are with you,’ not to sign any agreements, but to hold a gay parade. And we know how people resist these demands and how this resistance is suppressed by force,” Kirill said during a sermon in Moscow.
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  Kirill categorized the war as a struggle of “metaphysical significance,” for humanity to follow God’s laws.
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