Gregory Pappas, a Chicago PR man and Greek Orthodox, says he was denied communion in the Orthodox church because he’s gay. Excerpt:
Like many religions, there is a fundamentalist movement inside the Greek Orthodox Church that is stripping people away from its communities, breaking up families and shaking people’s faith. It’s a sort of Taliban-like effort to create pure and hyper-Christian theocracies free of people who don’t follow cookie-cutter descriptions of what they believe “good Orthodox Christians” to be. The number of priests who take this approach only seems to be growing in spite of—perhaps because of—the increasing tolerance of the world around them.
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