“With same-sex persons, we have no hesitation in our open arms towards them. They are our brothers, they are people who have an orientation, that I am not worthy to judge any of them.” said the Archbishop of Crete, Evgenios, in an interview he gave on the show “Contrasts” of Crete TV.

“I will say first about homosexual people. To move on to what is called marriage. Let’s talk about faces. With same-sex persons we have no hesitation in our open arms towards them. They are our brothers, they are people who have an orientation, that I am not worthy to judge any of them. Because Christ told me not to judge so that you will not be judged. So anyone who speaks categorically against those people who need love more than anyone, who didn’t stop for a minute to think about how they became what they are, what childhood life they had, what traumas they carry… It applies not only to same-sex persons, but to all persons who bring out violence in society“, he said.

“And we spiritual ones are not angels and archangels”

“Otherness is not a sin. We love the sinner, but we do not accept the sin.” At another point he emphasized that “I have many homosexuals who come to me and confess, and I know their sensitivity and why they are special and we love their specialness. And we spiritual ones are not angels and archangels”he stated.

“We neither criticize them, nor blast them”

“Let’s help these peopletelling them that what they are doing is leading them to the issues of their spiritual weakness and condition. Nothing less and nothing more. We don’t criticize them, we don’t blast them, we don’t see them on the edge of the cliff and give them a push up and down. They need our love. Those who try with dilemmas or false dilemmas to divide us with such things, they don’t offer the best services“, said the Archbishop of Crete.

“First of all, I would like to hear the opinions of experts”

“I would like before anything to study and listen to the opinions of expert people. I want to be enlightened by people who deal with it childish psychology. If it is to produce traumatized children, not necessarily those who will take the orientation of the parents, of the same sex, that is not what I am discussing. But traumatized children who won’t have clarified what the family really is, what everyone’s role is in the family, if there are distinct roles for the two parents, that’s another issue. The church can identify the voice with these children. Let heterosexual couples be given the opportunity to have children, let’s look at the #1 problem demographics, let’s look at these problems, which I am not presenting as a counter argument, but they exist“, the Archbishop of Crete, Evgenios, said characteristically about adoption.