Chrysostomos of the Metropolitan of Messinia, a major church in Southern Greece said, in an interview, that homosexuals, like all humans, are a creation of God and they deserve the same respect and honour and it’s completely wrong to subjugate them with violence and scorn.
Chrysostomos’s bold statement was issued right after another bishop of the church of the town Kalavryta, Metropolitan Ambrosios, which lies in the proximity of Messinia, lambasted gay people saying “Spit on Them, Beat them Up, They Are Not Human”.
The harangues of the bishop were to express his extreme dissent to the new legislation set by the ruling party to extend domestic partnership status to homosexual couples which continues the tradition of giving equal rights to the married heterosexual couples.