{"id":12890,"date":"2021-02-19T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=12890"},"modified":"2021-03-04T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T00:36:39","slug":"petition-for-bishops-to-denounce-blasphemous-orthodoxy-in-dialogue-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/petition-for-bishops-to-denounce-blasphemous-orthodoxy-in-dialogue-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition for Bishops to Denounce Blasphemous “Orthodoxy in Dialogue” Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Petitionby Michael Sisco –
\nThe website, Orthodoxy In Dialogue<\/em>, which is run by Giacomo Sanfilippo<\/b><\/a>, is a blasphemous site that makes a mockery of Orthodoxy. It actively promotes lifestyles and concepts that are contrary to the Orthodox Faith and Holy Tradition. This site also frequently attacks the faithful who vocally stand for truth with gross exaggerations and outright lies.<\/p>\n

The undersigned Orthodox Laypersons and Clergy, kindly request that our Orthodox Bishops publicly denounce this vile website, and consider excommunication of those who assist them in subverting our faith.<\/p>\n

Add your name to the Change.org petition here: Petition to Denounce Orthodoxy In Dialogue<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Here are some examples of blasphemy and subversion published on their website:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/orthodoxyindialogue.com\/2020\/07\/10\/the-power-of-the-holy-spirit-on-chastity-asceticism-and-sexual-liberation-by-giacomo-sanfilippo<\/a><\/p>\n

“The sexual revolution was bound to happen… Sexual revolutionaries want to live, to experience life at its most direct, to eschew the hypocritical veneer of bourgeois respectability.”
\n…
\n“Surely their [“they” being the aforementioned sexually liberated] sincere openness to these questions reveals the gentle power of the Holy Spirit wafting as a life-giving breath through this world that He helped bring into being. This is the world that God loved so much that He sent His only-begotten Son\u2014as St. Maximus and St. Symeon the New Theologian tell it\u2014to take her into His marriage bed and make love to her. He has no interest in finding a bride among the self-righteous. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/orthodoxyindialogue.com\/2018\/10\/11\/the-orthodox-church-the-loneliest-closet-of-all<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe pray for the day when who we are can be affirmed in the Church on earth as it already is in the Church in heaven. We pray for the day when we can meet our future partner in church, or bring our partner to church.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/orthodoxyindialogue.com\/2018\/03\/24\/9568\/#more-9568<\/a><\/p>\n

Politics is necessary if it is for the liberal cause that we believe in.\u00a0[paraphrase]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sanfilippo is not new to controversy, his LGBT agenda has been publicly called out and exposed on some of Orthodoxy’s biggest and most-trusted websites including Ancient Faith, Pravoslavie (also known as OrthoChristian) and Orthodoxy Today:<\/p>\n