(LONG READ) GLOBAL LGBTQ+ POISED FOR A SCALP IN GREECE (UPDATE)

For years supranational organizations have been pressing Greece to legalize gay marriage. Finally the center-right, but very 'progressive' PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has answered this siren call. We reported on the Draft Bill "Equality in Civil Marriage" in an earlier post (link). The Varangian Guard media are touchingly calling it "the Bill for the marriage of gay couples". More than just language is being corrupted here. In Greece, like in the Netherlands, incidentally outing the EU as the source, the constitutional principle of the Rule of Law (as opposed to the rule of man) has been redefined erroneously into something like "a state that produces rights". Progressive politicians love pushing through their values into law with an appeal to this non-existent "rights state". The Bill is also being presented as a human rights issue, but that of course is a gross corruption of what rights really are. We'll not go into that anymore; suffice it to say that what they actually mean are group privileges, but 'human rights' sounds - well, more humanistic. Problem is, Greece is an Orthodox nation, not a humanistic one. 


Feb. 14, 2024 Mirror Now: Greece To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage Despite Church Opposition.

Furthermore, a civic arrangement has already been provided for years ago. So this marriage Bill that is being shoved down the Greeks' throats is a typical example of a postmodern, liberal sacrament: you have to accept their 'values' and embrace them, or you're a [fill in the blank with a pejorative]. 

A few English language sources from abroad drive home at once what this is really all about: they're after a scalp, a victory over "the first Christian Orthodox country" they forced to accept gay marriage. It's sheer liberal despotism! 

Using the power of the state to foist minority morals on cultures at large is dictatorial. That is not what laws are supposed to do! Laws are supposed to be about codifying morally neutral practicalities, like traffic laws. But that's why "rights producing states" are different: they exist to codify liberal moralities.

So tonight, after two days of debate in the Greek Vouli, the Parliament is going to vote on the Bill. Ruling party members of the Nea Dimokratia party are nominally free of party discipline, but everyone knows how politics work. 

An important opposition leader, Kyriakos Velopoulos of the Greek Solution party and the Archbishop of Athens, Ieronymos managed to obtain a public roll call, so we know how MPs are going to vote on this top down, supranational outrage.

Party leaders will deliver their speeches in reverse order. Former Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras who is against the Bill, is slated to speak. His voice still carries some weight within the ruling party.


Ivy League educated PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address the plenary session last. He has been heard quoting from his own op-ed in the globalist's favorite magazine, The Economist on how to escape the grip of populism. It is behind a pay-wall, but we can still just catch him opining that "it requires a combination of honesty and flexibility" (source). 

In favor of the Bill are in principle the ruling New Democracy party, main opposition parties SYRIZA, PASOK, New Left and Plefsis Eleftherias. The Communist Party, the Greek Solution party, Niki and the Spartans are against. Which makes clear that the mainstream is now made up of liberal globalists, while those opposing it are found on both the Left and Right fringes.

The main objection is not even the marriage as such, although the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church has condemned the Bill unanimously. The main problem is the right to adopt children. In some weird reasoning the Government took the line that "children are involved anyway, so they need to be protected".

It is reminiscent of how parents in the sixties and seventies of the last century justified getting their daughters on the anti conception pill. "They're going to do it anyway, so it's better they are protected", was the logic then. The same logic is on display now to push through the LGBTQ+ agenda. 

The English language edition of Kathimerini is reporting that the number of MPs declaring themselves in favor is 105, a number likely to increase to 110, which means that around two thirds of the ruling ND party is on board (source).

Surprisingly, the bill has caused turmoil in progressive parties PASOK and SYRIZA circles, opening the possibility that several progressive MPs will abstain.

External reading
* Orthodox Times: Greek PM: We are discussing decisions of Greek State, unrelated to theological beliefs
* Keep Talking Greece:  Bill on same sex marriage in Parliament Plenary
* Orthodox Christianity: Thousands Rally Against Gay Marriage Bill on Athens' Central Square 

Update at 23:50 CET
They pulled it off. The first Orthodox nation has fallen to the gay agenda. The Greek Vouli just voted with about 2/3 of the vote in favor of the slippery slope of gay marriage. The "first Orthodox country" has fallen to the liberal dictatorship.


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