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Ukrainian Bishop Contracts COVID-19 After Blaming It On Homosexuality

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After blaming gay people for COVID-19, a prominent leader of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has himself contracted the virus. Speaking in March this year, on Ukrainian national TV, Patriarch Filaret stated that the pandemic was, “God’s punishment for the sins of men, the sinfulness of humanity.”Doubling down on his comments Kiev-based LGBTQI group Insight in April launched legal actions against Filaret condemning his actions as being damaging or the countries LGBTQI community.“Our aim is to show people that there is no longer place for such statements from church leaders in Ukraine,” Insight’s head Olena Shevchenko told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.“We inform that during planned testing, His Holiness Patriarch Filaret of Kiev and All.

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