Velopoulos threatens MPs not to go to church on Holy Week because of marriage for same-sex couples
To be “careful” in view Holy Week and to avoid going to church “warned” the government MPs who voted for the law on marriage equality, the president of the Hellenic Solution, Kyriakos Velopoulos amid turmoil from the unprecedented episode in the annals of the Greek parliament (with one of the protagonists being its deputy).
Velopoulos: The law for gay marriage is anti-Christian
“Stop dividing the world. It would be good for the fellow parliamentarians and ministers who voted for the anti-Christian law on gay marriage and the adoption of children, to at least respect the holy days of Easter and not divide the Christian crowd, “grabbing pews” in churches for vote-seeking reasons».
“It is questionable, how someone who legislates against the doctrine of the church, has the requirement to enter the house of the master, in whom he does not believe, because if he believed he would not vote! It’s an oxymoron to say the least! So it would be good if they don’t divide more. Arrives! Away from the churches on Easter, dear colleagues“, Kyriakos Velopoulos specifically stated in his “instruction”, provoking the immediate reaction of the parliamentary representative of New Democracy, Thanos Pleuris.
The reaction of Thanos Pleuris
Speaking of an anti-parliamentary and anti-Christian stance by the head of the Hellenic Solution, Mr. Pleuris observed that this is an attitude that constitutes acceptance of acts of violence and targeting of MPswhich, as he characteristically underlined, “we do not accept it from people who trafficked, supposedly letters of Christ”.
“At least I wasn’t selling nanovests for cancer,” retorted Kyriakos Velopoulos, challenging Mr. Pleuris at the same time.
Tasoulas: Some people want fighting and toxicity instead of voting
The President of the Parliament intervened in the issue of Velopoulos’ warnings Kostas Tassoulasdistinguishing, among other things, indirect incitement to the use of violence against members of parliament.
“Those who are confident in their ideas address the people and they seek neither raps, nor insults, nor terrors“, remarked Mr. Tasoulas, referring to the incidents against government officials and members of parliament in holy temples (the slap against ND MP Angeliki Delikaris in Kavala, the verbal attack, with curses and aphorisms, against Deputy Minister of Transport Christina Alexopoulos from priest in Patras and at the expense of the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis, also from a priest in Amyntaio).
“When we go to elections there is an escalation of the political climate, but it is not possible to reach event firing“, emphasized Mr. Tasoulas.
“If the people do not agree with a party, vote against it a thousand times”
Finally, the President of the Parliament made a special reference to “Velopoulos directive“, a “strange” as he said “allegedly protective appeal to New Democracy MPs to avoid churches”.
“This supposed protection it is essentially an indirect prompt“, underlined Mr. Tasoulas, “and I think that these should stop. We must get serious and we must have confidence in the expression of the Greek people.
If the Greek people do not agree with a party, a thousand times to vote against it. But the violence shows that those who indirectly encourage it, under the ridiculous and obvious cloak of precaution, do not trust the Greek people. And they want to replace the vote and the majority with commotion, fighting, fear, anxiety, toxicity, overwork.
Well, we identify these, we condemn them and we will make sure they don’t happen again. And those who want and believe and are confident in their ideas address the people and seek the majority.
They seek neither raps, nor insults, nor terrorism. The majority of the people change political events and nothing else in democracies. We all have to protect it.”
