Differences between them and us

“MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) – A prominent Russian Orthodox Church academic has been sacked from his post as a professor at a Moscow theological school for writing blog posts and giving interviews at variance with the Church’s official position on current affairs.

“Andrei Kurayev, an Orthodox senior deacon and well-known blogger, was fired from the Moscow Theological Academy's faculty for his ‘scandalous and provocative activities…in the mass media and in the blogosphere,’ the school's press service said Tuesday.”

Scandalous and provocative activities, as in “Kurayev had criticized the church’s handling of a scandal in the Russian city of Kazan in mid-December, when a clergyman dismissed for allegedly sexually harassing male students was welcomed immediately into another diocese in the city of Tver.

“Kurayev said on his blog that the incident was ‘proof of the existence of an influential gay lobby in our Church.’”

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131231/186120000/Russian-Orthodox-Academic-Fired-Over-Blog-Posts.html

String him up! How dare that senior deacon, theology professor, etc., say sexual harassment of male students is done by gay clergymen! Everyone knows only heterosexual men do that sort of thing. Everyone in the U.S. knows that, anyway.

Hmm. Could it be … Are men who are attracted to and who sexually harass younger men actually homosexual? No. Couldn’t be.