If the believers of the UOC are summoned to the army, it means that the army should have chaplains from the UOC. If you do not want and forbid the army to have chaplains from the UOC, then do not take our guys into the army. And that’s all.
But now it looks like our guys are being drafted into the army, but the chaplain is being denied. This is the inequality of everyone before the law, this is discrimination, and so on.
After all, if, as some of our “patriots” slanderously shout, the priests of the UOC are “agents of the FSB”, then why are their loyalists not the very “agents of the FSB”? Why, then, they (young guys) can be taken into the army, but their priests are not?
Or, and vice versa, if ordinary believers of the UOC are not “agents of the FSB,” then why should their priests be like that?
Therefore, any excuses for the faithful of the UOC in the presence of their priests in the army is deceit and a direct violation of rights and religious freedom.
Therefore, the chaplaincy law in the second reading should be passed with the proposed amendments.
