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Ukrainian veterans reject award after church annuls gay soldier’s medal - zqwerty - 01-03-2024
“It was my first award. It was valuable to me. But I do not need an award from an institution that does not fully understand what it is like to give up one’s life and, in anticipation of death, defend people and freedom,” Ukrainian soldier Yulia Mykytenko said in a statement. “God is love. But you are not.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-war-church-lgbt-soldier-viktor-pylypenko-medal/
RE: Ukrainian veterans reject award after church annuls gay soldier’s medal - Lilith7 - 01-03-2024
(01-03-2024, 12:48 PM)zqwerty Wrote: “It was my first award. It was valuable to me. But I do not need an award from an institution that does not fully understand what it is like to give up one’s life and, in anticipation of death, defend people and freedom,” Ukrainian soldier Yulia Mykytenko said in a statement. “God is love. But you are not.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-war-church-lgbt-soldier-viktor-pylypenko-medal/
Clearly the Patriarch Filaret is a deeply ignorant man.
Unlike those soldiers who've condemned his actions & supported their fellow soldier, bloody well done them!
That can't have been easy for them either.