The criminologist Yiannis Panousis expressed his concern about how society will assimilate the institution of marriage for same-sex couples, while criticizing the church and its prelate, Archbishop Hieronymos, characterizing his intervention for a roll-call vote during the process of passing the relevant bill as extortionate. .
“The institutional issue will be resolved today or tomorrow. The issue, however, is how society will react to these new situations is different,” said Yiannis Panousis, professor of criminology at the Greek National University of Athens and former Minister of Public Order, speaking on the first program of the Hellenic Radio.
“The issue is continuity”
And I don’t mean issues of intolerance, racism, hatred and such or discrimination. I mean exactly how we will live with the new situations, because they also produce other phenomena. In other words, it is not a question of which right, which equality, which dignity new institutions such as the marriage of same-sex couples give rise to. The question is what is next. Let’s assume that at the moment there are dozens of genders below man and woman and nobody sees it at airports in foreign countries, etc. However, this measure will also have queues. In other words, in the reading books at school, in the various places of recreation, entertainment and so on. So, we have to see other effects – and I don’t say this in a negative way – and other differences which are marriage, adoption and childbearing”.
“The Church Will Lose”
“The Church is not a political body-Wrong and extortionate to ask for a roll-call vote-No use in secondary conflicts-The Church will lose.”
Then, regarding the statements of the Church regarding the bill for same-sex couples, Mr. Panousis underlines “the position of the Church is the position of the Church. When the Church enters into such, it becomes a political body. This was bad. They are two completely different things. If you support religion and if you support political movements of the Church, this was wrong and it is in quotation marks and blackmail(…).
Church-State conflicts do not favor society
In the same sense, the state could also blackmail the Church, which does not benefit society in any way, that is, we enter into secondary conflicts, which are not conflicts, are not differentiation of society, but are conflicts of institutions and power conflicts. These have no meaning and no relation to the specific bill. What is happening with the Church is a conflict of powers, but also of internal Church powers as well as of political sovereignty and this is the mistake, because there the Church will lose. We are not now in a Catholic Church. Orthodoxy is different. That is where he will lose from playing this game plus the demand for separation of Church and State always creeps in as an argument. The state could threaten it too. These are mistakes, all of them. This is not the bill. In other words, we are losing the essence of a bill with the social symbolic, issues of equality, dignity, gender and now we are going to issues of who is arguing with whom and why”.
“Bakalis the politician who takes a line from the Metropolitan”
“The politician who takes a line from the Metropolitan is a grocer” noted Mr. Yiannis Panousis at the end of his interview on the first program of Hellenic Radio.
“If you have noticed, all the parties are experiencing internal turmoil. As if through this bill for same-sex couples the leader will fall, the balance of both will change. So, on the basis of a bill, political intrigues begin to take place. Now look, if someone has a deep conviction, a deep conviction though, which he has expressed in various ways over the last twenty years, decade, then indeed he can say I for reasons of conscience do not vote. But if someone does it, because he was notified by the Metropolitan or because he counted the beans of his area, I’m sorry but he is not a representative of the people, he is a grocer, let’s say of politics”.
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