Makers of the annual Orthodox priest calendar are upping the ante for 2015, releasing some of the raciest and most risqué images in the calendar’s three-year history.
The hunky Italian models posing as Orthodox priests have provided the calendar with global attention since 2012, so this year, calendar organizers are stripping them of what little clothing they had in previous years and using the appeal to push a very strong message against hate.
The theme of the calendar’s upcoming 2015 edition is “S.A.L.I.G.I.A.”, and HuffPo reports it has “a distinctly Russian angle.” In a preview video below, familiar images of Russian intolerance play while a muscular Orthodox priest disrobes.
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“The story takes place on the right bank of the Moskva River south of Moscow, where some priests believe that same-sex unions are NOT a sign of the coming apocalypse, contrary to what Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill may claim,” one of the calendar’s organizers, who asked not to be identified, told The Huffington Post. “These priests set out, in a humorous way, to remind the world that homosexuality is NOT one of the 7 deadly sins and in fact that Jesus Christ never even referred to homosexuality as a sin!”
The Orthodox Calendar team, he added, is “still the only organized global effort against homophobia in the Orthodox region” and as such, organizers and models “are more enthusiastic than ever to work on this new series illustrating the ancient sins forgotten by a declining church obsessed with demonizing” the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Censored and “X-rated” versions of the 2015 Orthodox Priest calendar, as well as an all-new “making of” DVD, are now available for purchase online.
Check out some of the images below:
Kieran
If those models had any balls they’d try being purposely offensive to Moslems. Maybe pose naked at a Moslem Holy Site? What’s the worse that could happen? I mean besides having your head chopped off?
Larry
@Kieran: You might want to check the correct spelling of Muslim if you wish to be taken seriously.
Kieran
@Larry The spelling is interchangeable. Look it up.
Ummmm Yeah
@Kieran: In this country and Russia, it is the christian terrorists causing the violence and emotional harm. So we’ll deal with one violent cult at a time starting with the barbarians in our own countries. Then we’ll move on to other people’s oppressors.
NoCagada
@Kieran: Yeah…sure…so why don’t YOU do it, MISS BALLFREE?
blackberry finn
@Ummmm Yeah: I guess since it’s a free country ‘n all, we can deal with whatever hostile element we wish to. There is unlimited space on the Internet for all manners and degrees of critique; and if some feel that hanging gays to death from ropes is a tad bit worse than anything Christians are currently doing in this country or in Russia, there’s nothing restricting them from expressing their unhappiness, neither limitations in virtual space nor any other constraint. Now, so be it!
tdx3fan
@blackberry finn: I think Matthew Shepherd to today shows that there is no shortage of Christian based freaks in this country willing to do worse than hang LGBTQ people.