{"id":1537,"date":"2006-04-11T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2006-04-11T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T21:34:00","slug":"human-rights-should-be-based-on-moral-norms-metropolitan-kirill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/human-rights-should-be-based-on-moral-norms-metropolitan-kirill\/","title":{"rendered":"Human rights should be based on moral norms &#8211; Metropolitan Kirill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax.com\/3\/144735\/news.aspx\">Interfax<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>MOSCOW.  April  4  (Interfax)  &#8211; The Russian Orthodox Church should develop  a  universal  approach to human rights based on moral norms andcombining   various   traditions,  said  Metropolitan  of  Smolensk  and Kaliningrad Kirill.   <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Orthodox  believers are prepared to accept the world view of othe rnations. However, they cannot keep silent when alien norms contradicting the basis  of  the  Orthodox  faith  are  being imposed upon them. It is necessary  to  carry out intensive harmonization of various views of the world,&#8221;  he  said at the 10th World Russian Popular Council in Moscow on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Freedom   and  human  rights  are  a  great  achievement  of  human civilization, however, &#8220;it is necessary to prepare citizens to use these rights, taking into account the moral norms,&#8221; he said.     <\/p>\n<p>This  is  the  reason  why  the  Russian Orthodox Church is against attempts  to  legalize  homosexual  relations  and  the advertisement ofgambling ventures, he said.     <\/p>\n<p>A European parliament resolution adopted this January proposes thatchildren  be  educated  to  accept homosexuality and establishes a fight against homophobia, he said.     <\/p>\n<p>An approach which is not balanced by moral norms should not pretend to be a unique understanding  of human rights, he said. Unfortunately, &#8220;such an  approach  is steadily making its way into modern international legislation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interfax MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax) &#8211; The Russian Orthodox Church should develop a universal approach to human rights based on moral norms andcombining various traditions, said Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-christianity","category-secularismculture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}