Moscow's Patriarchate Foreign Minister Metropolitan Kirill spoke out against Moscow's controversial gay pride yesterday, insisting that such an event would spread sin:

We believe that the law should not interfere in citizens' private lives. You can sin if you want to, but you will answer to God. However, if you are trying to propagate your sin by seducing and degrading people, society must oppose it.

He went on to utter one of the most perplexing ruminations on democracy in history. Kirill claims that if the homos are allowed to march, the event would "mean something is wrong with democracy. Democracy should be for everyone, but it appears that we have double standards." Huh? If democracy's for everyone, then wouldn't the march uphold such standards? We're confused. But, it seems, not as confused as Kirill himself...

(Update: Reader John just sent us an email saying that Kirill's not a Catholic but, in fact, part of the Russian Orthodox Church. The confusion stems from his title, "patriarchate" - which is used in both the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox tradition. In Catholicism, a patriarchate is one of the twelve highest bishops, while in the Russian Orthodox there are nine. There used to only be four, but they changed it. Interesting, no? Thanks, John, we just learned something new.)