ozgeorge said:
I am the Chairman of the Brotherhood of St. Tibulus.
I can't possibly be a lone crackpot with a keyboard because I am a Chairman of a Brotherhood.
Dear George,
People in the higher echelons of the Church see it a little more seriously.
Here is a statement from the priest who heads the Secretariat for Inter-Orthodox Relations of ROCOR. PLease note that the response from Moscow also treats it seriously ~ unless you think there is a contingent of crackpot Russian priests sitting at their keyboards and plotting how to destroy homosexuals in the Church of Finland. ???
"When this Finnish aberration was discovered, the Secretariat for
Inter-Orthodox Relations of the ROCOR sent a formal note expressing
deep concern about this issue to the Department of External Relations
of the Moscow Patriarchate.
"A response was received, informing us that the MP had already been
informed of the Finnish situation by the local MP priest there, and
that an appropriate measures would be taken.
"(Of course, the Orthodox Church of Finland is an autonomous
Archbishopric under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate,
so that neither the Moscow Patriarchate nor ROCOR have any authority
over it).
"... Both the ROCOR and the MP have taken note of the situation with
regards to this "Rainbow" Conference in Finland, and are in communication
as to how to condemn it in the strongest possible way.
"With love in Christ,
"Prot. Alexander Lebedeff"