IF THINE EYE OFFEND THEE:

Same-sex marriage chapel demolished (Julius Strauss, 09/10/2003, Daily Telegraph)

The Russian Orthodox Church has demolished a chapel where a priest conducted a marriage ceremony between two men.

The Chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was apparently knocked down after local churchmen decided it had been defiled.

The "marriage" of Denis Gogolyev and Mikhail Morozev in Nizhny Novgorod scandalised the Orthodox Church and created outrage among ordinary Russians. The priest, Fr Vladimir Enert, was unfrocked after the men said they paid him a £300 bribe to ignore a ban on same-sex marriages.

Now that's taking sinfulness seriously...

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 9, 2003 7:35 PM