How the Lord Saved the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Construction of a New Babylon

The ways of the Lord are inscrutable. What until recently seemed like a violation of the rights of the Church and the faithful has today been revealed as God’s mercy and salvation from the disgrace that, by all accounts, will very soon befall the country’s religious organizations that are members of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations.

Since the beginning of the year, the government has been actively implementing the new Civil Code. Government officials are constantly discussing this document with religious leaders. At first glance, it contains many beneficial provisions: the rights of displaced persons, war victims, ethnic minorities, and other socially vulnerable groups.

However, the devil is in the details. The basis for the updated Civil Code is the “National Strategy on Human Rights” signed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which explicitly addresses the prevention of discrimination, hate speech, and intolerance, as well as respect for the rights of the LGBTQI+ community. It also unequivocally states that respecting the rights of homosexuals is a requirement of the European Union and is linked to the prospect of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.

It is well known how LGBT rights are respected in the EU. For example, the Church of Greece has been legally prohibited from calling homosexuality a sin.

At the same time, the recognition of the rights of perverts, followed by the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption—is an existential issue. It effectively presents the once-Orthodox and still—albeit nominally—Christian Ukrainian society with a choice. By all accounts, it has already “matured” to the point of rejecting not only its Orthodox identity but also its Christian identity altogether.

However, the architects of this process understand the depth of religious sentiment among ordinary Ukrainians, who sooner or later may come to their senses and realize that they have been deceived. To prevent this from happening, organizations such as the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) exist. It is precisely this quasi-religious association that, in essence, is set to play a decisive role in the issue of LGBT recognition.

For the religious organizations that are part of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, this process will also be painful and unnatural. But here, “Western partners” come to the rescue—they already regularly visit Ukraine under the guise of various “Scandinavian church councils” and Anglican delegations steeped in homosexual ideology.

It used to be hard to imagine a man in an Orthodox cassock sitting at the same table with a female “bishop” in a same-sex union. Now, however, this has become a common occurrence, including within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO). Thus, traditional religious organizations have lost their identity, and all that remains is to sign on the dotted line.

This is precisely why the unassuming term “new Civil Code” has appeared in the Verkhovna Rada. It mentions LGBT issues only in passing, while the bulk of the text is devoted to proper matters that the state would have been obligated to fulfill anyway. The role of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations in this process is to legitimize the document on a moral and ethical level.

In recent months, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Stefanchuk has been actively visiting the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations with this document and has already stated that “the drafting of the new Civil Code requires finding a compromise between the church and the LGBT community.”

Fortunately for us all, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is no longer a member of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations. Previously, some representatives of the UOC protested this, pointing out that the Church is the largest religious organization in the country. But now all that remains is to thank God that, through His inscrutable providence, He has spared our Church from this shameful compromise. They have decided to build this Babylon without us. And thank God!