“Which parental model will the child who grows up in a same-sex environment have in terms of his behavior and his position in society?”, asked the Metropolitan of Messinia regarding marriage in same-sex couples and childbearing.

“It is not a normal growth and development of this child,” he said on Friday morning to SKAI and the show ‘SIMERA’.

“Heterosexual couples to adopt a child go through a psychological examination, doesn’t that mean something? Do they not see that adoption between same-sex couples is scientifically impossible? I leave the social impact aside…”, he added.

“We are wrongly starting to legislate something for show what? That we are progressive? A right of everyone cannot operate at the expense of another’s life”, he added.

Regarding the symbiosis, he clarified: “Cohabitation is their matter, the church is not involved in it”

“We don’t reject anyone, anyone who wants to come to the church, but that’s not a commitment for the church not to speak its mind,” he said

“Mr. Georgiadis ensures his own right to legislate and it does well and the church consolidates its own right to say what its teaching is”

“It’s a given that the child will grow up in a psychologically unhealthy environment and that’s our problem,” he stated and added “the child enters into a two-person relationship which is not normal for the church”

Finally, regarding the issue of surrogate mothers, he said: “Women’s organizations have not spoken about this issue, why? how do they perceive his role? what do they say about surrogate mothers? Will women become a procreative mechanism? Let them give us an answer”