Contradictions

Who should we believe? The prime minister, who made a commitment to pass legislation allowing same-sex marriage, or the high-ranking clerics who never miss an opportunity to vent their homophobic vitriol?

The dilemma would never have come up - given that this is a country with a clear separation between Church and state, right? - if certain moves over the past few weeks hadn't cast doubt over the extent of that separation. 

In a social media post before he stepped down as citizen protection minister on Friday, for example, Notis Mitarakis had written about how "honored" he was to meet with the metropolitan bishop of Piraeus - he even posted a photo of the meeting - and to speak with the bishop of Serres, after they sought clarifications on behalf of the Church of Greece's Holy Synod with regard to the new national identification cards that the government said it is...