Russian Orthodox Church calls for teaching of morals in school, deplores "ideology of science"

MOSCOW:

A spokesman for the Orthodox Church said Wednesday that Russia's schools should teach religious principles and moral values, and accused some of Russia's leading scientists of trying to impose the "ideology of science" on the school system.

The church spokesman, Father Vsevolod Chaplin, was rebutting a group of prominent scientists who recently protested the church's growing influence on Russian society.

Chaplin, in reply, urged teachers to instruct children not to follow the vicious examples of "homosexuals and prostitutes."

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