Greek archbishop takes courageous stand for life and family
By LifeSite News
The Greek Orthodox Church has taken a bold stand against the Socialist government's law regulating artificial insemination.
The law is one that Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Orthdox church in Greece, has labelled a sop to the feminist movement, which he says seeks to undermine the family and to "overthrow the natural and ethical order."
The church opposes in-vitro fertilization and any form of human experimental fetal-cell research. It claims the new legislation would also allow same-sex couples to "conceive" children using surrogates.
The bill, which has not yet been debated by Greece's parliament, bans cloning, but allows some fetal cell research.
"We have to protect the traditional family," Christodoulos said. He was quoted in the media as blaming "the feminist movement" for promoting "ideological, anti-Christian positions" and the "degenerate phenomena we see in the family."
