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Russian Orthodox Priest Claims Growing A Beard Protects You From Turning Gay

He's obviously never seen a glitter beard.

A leader in the Russian Orthodox Church is urging men to keep their beards to “protect themselves from homosexuality.”

Metropolitan Kornily, primate of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (RPSC), claims that shaving is more likely to make a man become “corrupted” by same-sex attraction.

“God set down certain rules. The Lord created everyone with a beard. No man can resist his creator,” Kornily told Russia’s government-owned National News Service. “It’s made a monstrous thing to see men’s clothing and hairstyles changing.”

Kornily regretted that beards have “completely disappeared from the Catholic West”—suggesting he's never set foot inside a Apple store, hipster bar or co-working space.

Can you be cooler than that? Hipster man ready for the holiday season with glitter beard holding his pug outdoors. Both dressed warmly, having put on their checked scarfs. Man has glasses and a red wool hat. Horizontal waist up shot outdoors with copy space.. Fallen leaves on the ground.

We also have to wonder what Kornily's take is on Harnaam Kaur, the 25-year-old Sikh woman with a full beard, who's become a model and activist for body positivity.

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