Romanian Orthodox Church spokesman Vasile Benescu weighed in on the scandal that erupted over the weekend after Kimpulung-Muschel Mayor Elena Lasconi said she voted YES in the family referendum, reading from Claudio Nesui who said “the family is everything people want a family to be.”

USR President Katalin Drula announced that he had a discussion with Elena Lasconi and asked her to withdraw from the campaign for the European Parliament after the scandal caused by her statements about voting in the referendum for the family, and that he decided to convene the National Bureau of the USR this evening.

Olena Lasconi, appointed head of the USR list in the European Parliament elections, said in an interview with Prima TV that she voted “YES” in the referendum on the traditional family in 2018. “I am a Christian, I am Orthodox and I believe that a family consists of a woman and a man,” said Lasconi.

For these statements, she was criticized both by former colleagues from the USR, now in REPER, and by her party colleague Clotilde Armand.

In the context of this scandal, USR MP Claudio Nesui, vice-president of USR, wrote on his Facebook that “Family is what people want to see family as. “Marriage is a contract,” and the state should not interfere either in marriage or in the family, the spokesman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Vasile Benescu, said on Sunday.

• “A thought that accurately describes the disarticulation of the moral vision of the natural order, its compromise through amoralism.
• An example of invincible ignorance and hermetic cultural illiteracy with inevitable consequences for society. The consequences, of course, are never appreciated by those who can see in the family ‘everything that people want to see,’ that is, project with their minds beyond the insignificant reality,” Benescu said, referring to Nesua’s statement, which he quoted but did not called directly.

The BOR spokesman continued his plea for a family of one man and one woman, “built on marriage, not on a ‘contract’.”

• “Ideological e, filled with almost lethal doses, sows chaos in the cultural and moral metabolism of those who did not have access to the pure food and air of the highest world culture, European, born of the Judeo-Christian moral code. The one that sprouted, gave birth to, and nurtured, including modernity, which is no longer understood by progressive ritual ideologies that aimlessly live in the dark age of relativism and post-truth. Because, no longer having access to his cultural key, he of course remains impenetrable to them.
• The elimination of the “old” world, the challenge of the formative authority of the family, built on marriage between a man and a woman or between a woman and a man, a multi-thousand-year institution (not a “contract”) into which almost all of us are born and the only one who can lead humanity forward , the persecution of nature, the programmatic erasure of the traces of the past, to which we all owe the present and, to a greater extent, the future, these are terrible signs of the existence in the most civilized world of the Decalogue and the Gospel of new barbarians: ideologues of salvation who ineptly, therefore unfairly speak about the past and also perorize a future which, in hysterical opposition to Christianity and traditional institutions, is necessarily better to believe. “The best” is not based on anything, being a scum, already an old coot of all ideologies,” Benescu wrote.

Banescu emphasized that there will be no need for changes in the traditional family.

• “It is far from certain that the state, education or politicians everywhere have the moral right to use ideological constructs like ‘marriage for all’ (once hated by the older ‘all’) or concepts like ‘gender’ and ‘diversity’ to institutionalize them with with the aim of radically changing social relations.
• Which of the really intelligent and responsible people could take responsibility for such an unnecessary change?
• Deconstructing reality and the natural (which constitutes the given) does not help anyone.
• Not even those who probably feel an advantage from it,” Benescu concluded.