Gays are "Deeply Unhappy": Russian Orthodox Priest Warns of Dangers of Homosexual "LifeStyle"

By Hilary White

MOSCOW, June 10, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After illegal Gay Pride marches went ahead in Moscow earlier this month, homosexualist activists are condemning the Russian Orthodox Church for asserting Christian teaching on sexuality and suggesting that homosexual people do not have to live the "gay lifestyle".

One member of the Orthodox Church, Father Vsevolod Chaplin, recently said of homosexuals, in an interview with newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, "Such people are deeply unhappy".

"I know it from confessions and numerous life stories. It's not by chance that they die earlier and there're more suicides, drug addicts and alcoholics among them," he said. the rest