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Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:39 AM Aug 2018

Deacon found guilty of throwing holy water on lesbian

An Orthodox Deacon in Moldova who threw holy water on a lesbian during a live television broadcast will have to pay her compensation and publicly apologize to her.

A court found Deacon Ghenadie Valuta guilty of ‘incitement to discrimination based on beliefs and signs of sexual orientation’ for splashing LGBTI activist, Angelica Frolov. The court ordered him to pay Frolov $715 in damages and to cover her legal fees.

The incident happened in 2014 during a televised debate. Valuta splashed Frolov to ‘help drive the impure spirits out of all representatives of the LGBT community’.

The Deacon has made it his mission to rid Moldova of its LGBTI community. He turns up to LGBTI Pride events to cover the participants with holy water in an attempt to cleanse them. ‘He is obsessed, indeed, he comes to our Pride march every year and splashes us and the place where we marching with holly water. I can’t say that he represents the opinion of all Moldovan people, but the level of homophobia and transphobia in Moldova is still high,’ Frolov said.

full story: https://tinyurl.com/yabxtf9y


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Deacon found guilty of throwing holy water on lesbian (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2018 OP
Can't make this stuff up empedocles Aug 2018 #1
Nice hat Harry njhoneybadger Aug 2018 #2
That's some bad hat, Harry Downtown Hound Aug 2018 #4
I wish I could get some 'Holy Man' to throw water on me The Mouth Aug 2018 #3
Me, too, only I want the $715. marble falls Aug 2018 #6
What is it with religion jb5150 Aug 2018 #5

The Mouth

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3. I wish I could get some 'Holy Man' to throw water on me
Fri Aug 24, 2018, 10:59 AM
Aug 2018

I would have a bunch of Alka Seltzer ready to chew up so I could spit out foam like I was possessed and then chase his ass down

Anyone who can believe absurdities can commit atrocities
-Voltaire

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