Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on Thursday for the first time spoke from the rostrum of the State Duma. As part of the Christmas Educational Readings he addressed the deputies and members of the Federation Council, urging them to confront the “alternative morality.” As examples of such “pernicious philosophical views” imposed from outside Russia, the patriarch called the legalization of same-sex unions, legalizing euthanasia and “introduction to the social life of certain hazardous elements of Justice».
Do not trifle with God’s plan and the patriarch called legislative policy family, motherhood and childhood. In particular, he said, it is necessary to bring abortion of compulsory health insurance system, and to ban surrogacy. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church offered the deputies to work on expanding the teaching of the course Fundamentals of religious cultures in school, increase in funding of Orthodox schools, as well as finding alternatives to universal e-card for those who do not agree with their uncontested implementation. “It is impossible to totally implement these technologies. Each of us can be in bondage to these technologies, under total control, “- he said.
A year ago, the patriarch spoke for the first time in the Federation Council, but the current visit to the State Duma was the first in history. Last time the deputies (then the USSR Supreme Soviet) addressed his predecessor, Patriarch Alexy II in 1990. Alexy II came to the State Duma in 2004, but then did not wear the official visit of nature.
According to political analyst Alexei Makarkin, the performance of the patriarch in the parliament shows that in circumstances where the general spiritual priorities of the church and the state becomes more and more, the state needs the resources of the church to add legitimacy to its policy. “Today, when the rate on conservatism, traditional values and anti-Westernism, the role of the church as a force to which, if necessary, can appeal the state is growing. And a visit to the State Duma of the patriarch is a proof of that, “- said” NO “Mr. Makarkin.
At the same time, this does not mean that the political role of the Russian Orthodox Church as an independent player increases. “The government would like to see the church was a resource of the state, rather than an equal partner. In addition, the church can not go to the state meet in some positions, for example, to officially recognize the ownership of the Crimea Russia, as it will face even greater problems with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, “- said the expert.
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