Greek hierarch criticizes new school textbooks containing LGBT propaganda

Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythera and Antikythera. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency

Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira and Antikythira has condemned the introduction into Greek schools of teaching materials that alter the definition of family. The hierarch of the Church of Greece called it unacceptable to impose non-traditional values and a "new type of family" on children under the guise of education, reports Romfea.

From September 2026, books are planned to be distributed in Greek primary schools in which children are offered a choice of a "family type" that suits them from three options. Alongside the traditional union, the authors of the materials promote couples of two men or two women.

"Our children will be taught not one, as has been the case until now, but two more 'family models' (man with man and woman with woman), so that in the future they may choose the 'type of family' that suits them. A terrifying fall!" emphasized His Grace Seraphim.

In his view, Greek society has encountered a spiritual "liberal wind" brought from the "spiritually bankrupt West" and connected with a "new world order." The legislative recognition of same-sex unions with the right to adopt children was described by the hierarch as an undermining of the "God-established family" founded on Holy Scripture.

As a means of protection, the hierarch called on every Christian family to become a "domestic church" and a "hidden school." He recommended that parents gather together at a common table daily, pray together, and carefully monitor the content of school lessons. "It is necessary to discuss with children what they are told and taught at school, and to correct all those novelties and oddities that are presented to them," the hierarch stated.

Metropolitan Seraphim recalled that in former times it was customary for families to study the Gospel and the lives of the saints together, and that today such "spiritual mobilization" is more necessary than ever. He supported his position with the words of the Apostle Paul: "The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light."

As the UOJ reported, the Church of Greece confirmed its refusal to recognize LGBT marriages following a court ruling.

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