The Orthodox Church is back and insisting, through its spokesman Vasile Benescu, on the exclusion of the concept of “diversity” from the Law on Pre-University Education, arguing that it “cannot remain unexplained honestly in legislative debates and, out of respect for logic, both are not may be introduced into the legal text”.

In the draft Law on Education, diversity is listed among the values ​​that form the basis of the pre-university education system.

• “The irrelevance of the values ​​of diversity itself is obvious, since diversity (sexual or not) is a given, not a value (legislated or promoted).
• The concept of “diversity”, which today covers a wide social sphere (ethnic, cultural, linguistic, sexual, etc.) and which absolutely none of the supporters of reality denies, cannot remain sincerely unexplained in the legislative debate and, of course, out of respect for logic, it cannot even be included in the legislative text, because the law establishes things that become mandatory, which in the case of “diversity” is not only inadequate, but also ridiculous-absurd,” said Vasile Benescu, quoted in a press release sent Agerpres on Monday by the Press Service of the Romanian Patriarchate.

“Diversity cannot become an object of promotion or propaganda”

Vasile Benescu states that the BOR and religious cults in Romania “do not oppose the ubiquitous diversity in reality, but only criticize the specific transformation of the content of sexual diversity into an object of promotion and propaganda in the school space, which should remain par excellence free and protected from any which form of ideologising, including the orientation of young people’s intimate inclinations through subversive influence and through the affirmation of certain concepts or constructs (such as ‘gender’) by the school itself.”

“Uncomfortable and unnatural topic for conversation”

• “Can we popularize the rhythms of the seasons, the colors of autumn, day and night, the languages ​​of the earth, the aromas of the fields? Can we promote them?
• Especially since diversity also refers to a person’s sexual/intimate life, which, in the context of including the concept of diversity in the law on education, will become an uncomfortable and unnatural topic for discussions between those who are supposed to apply the law (teachers) and those who are supposed to proclaim this intimate orientation as an aberrant simulacrum of public “confession” (students).
• Obviously and implicitly, NOBODY should be discriminated against for any reason, but he should also not be privileged because of promotion and propaganda confirmed by the law, whatever it may be,” states Vasile Benescu.

He speaks of the “constitutional right” of religious cults to propose and advocate amendments to education laws, saying that they represent “the most consistent part of a true civil society, which consists of many millions of people who freely practice their religious and cultural values” ​confirmed throughout throughout the history of mankind, and not during the stormy course of political and ideological activity.”

• “For this noble reason, religious denominations have a constitutional right to propose and argue for amendments to education laws, their duty and intention in this case is to observe and condemn the violation of the freedom of students and teachers not to be invaded. of an ideological nature or legislative excesses dictated by ideology, such as neo-Marxist ideology, which treacherously promotes ideas and practices that are contrary to nature in the public space: sexualization of children’s consciousness (explicit sexual education from an early age; in many Western countries even in kindergartens); distortion of the concept of natural family (mother, father, children) or its accidental derivatives (incomplete family, family resulting from adoption, family consisting of grandparents and grandchildren or siblings, that were left alone); abusing the institution of marriage by forcibly opening it up to same-sex couples, thus directly challenging the raison d’être of this venerable institution; the programmatic denigration of Christianity and the relationship between religious cults and schools, slyly suggesting that they provide so-called indoctrination or “religious ideology.”
• If it appears in time, then of course it should be condemned,” the spokesman of the Patriarchate also notes.

“Becoming an educated person also means being able to protect yourself from the manipulation of reality in time”

The representative of the BOR also says that religion, taught in its moral, historical and cultural content to young people who have the right to complete intellectual training, is never an “ideology”, but a valuable subject that existed and exists in all civilized countries. , because civilization and civility are connected with spirituality.

• “Becoming an educated person also means having the opportunity to protect yourself from the manipulation of reality, from its ideological deformation through propaganda of absolutely any type, including religious, thus forming your healthy critical spirit and insight capable of acting. with moral and axiological clarity throughout your life,” adds Benescu.

It will be recalled that on March 13, representatives of 13 religious cults recognized in Romania, led by Patriarch Daniil, sent a joint appeal to the Minister of Education Ligia Deca, proposing several changes to the draft law on education.

Religious cults demand, among other things, to remove from the draft law the obligation of teachers to promote “diversity as an educational resource to form inclusive and tolerant attitudes in students”, to remove the phrase “sexual orientation” from the article, which states that any discrimination , including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, as well as the inclusion of the Regalia in the list of optional school subjects in the bachelor’s exam are prohibited in all premises intended for education.