Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov called civilian wives "free prostitutes"

The head of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Affairs, Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov at a meeting with the participants of the Orthodox community "Orthodoxbro" criticized women who agree to a civil marriage, Interfax reports.

“We themselves do not understand what marriage is. It is reluctant to say that“ I am a free prostitute ”, so they say: I have a civil marriage. Hello! Yes, you just provide services for free - and that’s all, and so no one counts you for your wife,” he said.

At the same time, the priest noted that in Russia there are millions of married women more than married men. “How can it be? Yes, very simple: those men who say that they are married to a civil marriage, they do not consider them for their wives, it’s just temporary consolation. Because if he treated her as a wife - well, it’s hard to register, or what? Yes, no,” the representative of the church believes.

The Russian Orthodox Church stated that the resonant statement of Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov about civil wives was aimed not to offend women, but to draw attention to the problem of the irresponsibility of men.

The Russian Orthodox Church explained that this statement of a scandalous clergyman should not be understood literally.

"Father Demetrius in his characteristic figurative manner attracted attention to the problems of women who are forced to live with men without registration of marriage. It can be assumed that the pastoral experience of the priest shows that men in such cases refuse to take family obligations and often leave civilian wives, causing them to a psychological trauma," the deputy deputies of the Synodal Department of the Church with society said on Sunday. And the media of Vakhtang Kipshidze.

Therefore, he believes, the words of the priest say that "the status of a civil wife humiliates the dignity of a woman, makes her vulnerable to a immoral and irresponsible man."

Thus, Kipshidze continued, the priest’s words should be considered "not as directed against women, but as directed against those who humiliate and use them."

“The church once again indicates that happiness in the relationship of a man and a woman is achievable only on the principles of love and mutual responsibility, which is also fixed by the marriage recorded by the state,” the representative of the church noted.

Archpriest Smirnov has recently opposed destructive abortions , love - illness , brought to suicide, baptism of children born with the help of IVF, "did not receive confirmation of the" theory of Darwin, spoke of the weakness of the female mind, called the "inferiority" of the absolute majority of Russian men, in which the deaths of "Christian civilization" were guilty , demanded. Introduction of "salaries" for many children and agitated against cartoons.