I don't know quite what to make of this. It seems to say, 'polygamy bad for us but good for you.'
Wait...What's that smell?.?.?...Is...Is that religious relativism? Oh, wait it's just the trash...I really should take that out! P.U!
Daniel Ph.
Moscow, January 16, Interfax - Polygamy is inadmissible to an Orthodox Christian, but traditional life style of Russian followers of other religious beliefs should be taken into account, deputy chairman of the Department for external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said.
‘Polygamy is absolutely inadmissible to Orthodox Christians, but it is a fact of Muslim life and it was a fact of life even in the Soviet times’, Fr. Vsevolod said to an Interfax correspondent on Monday.
He believes it wrong to force people to change traditional way of their lives ‘as it is done in the West where unisex marriages are propagated while the Muslims are denied their right to family traditions’.
‘Anyway, I would like to remind that Russia has always been strong by its ability to incorporate people adhering different life styles’, the priest noted.