[2019] Order From Chaos: What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think.

Editor’s Note: The degree of respect for LGBTQ people has increasingly become a measure of democratic health in former Soviet states. If Russia were a place where Pride parades were allowed, its quarrels with the United States, and ours with it, would possibly diminish, writes James Kirchick. This article originally appeared in the Washington Post.

What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think.

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Zelensky only banned the Moscow Patriarchate! The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church!

Zelensky did not ban all of the Eastern Orthodox Churches! He only banned the Moscow Patriarchate. There is more than one Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine. In 2018, there was a ‘schism’—or autocephaly, depending on who you ask—because of US meddling! The US has a long history of interfering in the Orthodox Church!

Some history:

Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine

“Holy War”: Russia’s Orthodox Church cuts ties with Ecumenical Patriarchate

Source: US State Dept Paid $25 Mil Bribe to Patriarch of Constantinople to Foment Religious Chaos in Ukraine (archived)

[11-23-2014] Pat. Bartholomew Meets Joe Biden (Again) (archived)

The Ecumenical Patriarchate, through the Greek community in the United States, has strong connections to the US Democratic Party, and to the US government in general. Patriarch Athenagoras, most responsible for the uncanonical and blasphemous “lifting of the anathemas” against the Papal religion, was elected Patriarch of Constantinople due to CIA* influence and in January of 1949 was flown on the plane of then President, Harry Truman, to assume his role at Istanbul.

[06-13-1992] UKRAINE’S TOP CLERIC DEFROCKED

*Ousting the Ecumenical Patriarch: the removal of Maximos V according to CIA records