{"id":5992,"date":"2013-06-11T19:22:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2013-06-11T19:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:22:04","slug":"letter-to-the-president-of-the-slovak-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/letter-to-the-president-of-the-slovak-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the President of the Slovak Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em><strong>Lvov (Ukraine), 6 June 2013<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>President of the Slovak Republic<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>JUDr. Ivan Ga\u0161parovi\u010d<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Hod\u017eovo n\u00e1m. 1<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>P.O.Box 128<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>81000 Bratislava 1<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dear Mr President,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby addresses You with a request that as President of the Slovak Republic, You should <strong>not sign the amendment to the Criminal Code concerning so-called sexual orientation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The term \u201chatred on grounds of sexual orientation\u201d is vague, and being a lawyer, associate professor and candidate of science, You are certainly very well aware that to adopt unclear laws whose interpretation may eventually cause discrimination against 99% of the Slovak population is a crime.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year we commemorate the anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius who apart from the Gospel also brought Christian laws which shaped the Slovak nation for more than 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dear Mr President, be brave and do not sign this law, even at the cost of EU opposition. Do not sign it even at the cost of eventual dismissal from Your post. At this historic hour, You will appear before the Slovak nation either as a hero or as a traitor. There is no third choice for You today. May ex-President of the Czech Republic, V. Klaus, be an example of heroism to You.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Praying for You and blessing You,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">+ Elijah<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Patriarch of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">+ Timothy OSBMr\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 + Methodius OSBMr<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Secretary Bishops<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Copies to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MPs of Slovakia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Church representatives<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mass media<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Download: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/President-of-Slovakia-criminal-law-homophobia.doc\">Letter to the President of the Slovak Republic (6.6.2013)<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lvov (Ukraine), 6 June 2013 President of the Slovak Republic JUDr. Ivan Ga\u0161parovi\u010d Hod\u017eovo n\u00e1m. 1 P.O.Box 128 81000 Bratislava 1 &nbsp; Dear Mr President, the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate hereby addresses You with a request that as President of the Slovak Republic, You should not sign the amendment to the Criminal Code concerning so-called sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[36,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vkpatriarhat.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}