Hardly had the leader of newly elected religious party NIKI sworn-in in the Greek Parliament and he revealed to public his pint of views on to social issues: abortions and purity education and pledged for the promotion of the Family.
“Our faith is our life,” Greek-Orthodox, theology teacher Dimitris Natsios told ANT1 TV on Monday morning and added:
“The right to abortion is not based on any medical or legal logic. As a democratic, patriotic Niki movement, we believe that absolutely no one has the right to cause harm to the fetus.”
He said that a different kind of education should be given to school children and that is the promotion of Family and the education on purity.”
“We have 102 sections in the primary school books, in the old reading books (today we call them language books). There is not a single section that focuses on the institution of the family”, he argued.
When the journalists reacted, he reiterated that we should teach purity to primary school children, instead of teaching cooking recipes, we should teach texts from the great masters of our literature, and concluded:
“Does the word purity bother you? If you teach a text by Polemis, Elytis, Drosinus, Kalvos, all these are texts of purity.”
Regarding the issue of “family education,” he said that the family should be promoted “so that the children are taught the institution of the family, but also to fill the villages with children again.”
When asked if he recognizes women’s right to self-determination, he replied that “these discussions are very difficult, but from the very conception there is a human being, there is the right of the human being, of the unborn child, this is our point of view”, he said.
Natsios stated that he is not bothered by a woman wearing pants and differed from the statements of the Metropolitan who said that he detests women who dress like men.
Regarding NIKI relations with the far-right party of the Spartans who also pledge for “family, homeland and faith” ( a slogan created by the colonel’s junta), the party leader said that his party is not concerned with extreme views.
Niki has 10 seats in the Greek Parliament.
PS given NIKI’ purity and some ND deputy minister who was pleadging against abortions, the two parties could cooperate and pass young women a chastity belt with a digital code (Digital governance!) to be given to the groom on the religious wedding night.
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