Too ” decadent ” Valentine’s Day ? In any case, this is the opinion of the Russian Orthodox Church. Since she officially reprobate Valentine’s Day, recently introduced in Russia, after the end of the USSR, in the early 2000s franceinfo.
According to the Church, Valentine’s Day is “propaganda” of the “LGBT ideology”
In fact, Valentine’s Day is considered too Western and brings with it too many free love values. So much so that Russia created its own holiday, the family day of love and loyalty, which takes place on 8 July.
But as the country becomes increasingly conservative, the 16th Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill now ask for his prohibition. “Thank God LGBT propaganda and ideology have been banned by law in our countryhe congratulates himself. However, it is important to go further “, he has declared.
But it is not only the Church that is calling for its ban. A Duma deputy also asked that Valentine’s Day be mentioned it is prohibited in schools and administrations. Result, if Valentine’s Day is still celebrated in Russia, it is done in a rather discreet way, restaurants or even shops avoiding writing” Saint Valentine » at their windows, he reports again franceinfo.
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