{"id":1810617,"date":"2023-01-19T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810617"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T19:46:01","slug":"ivan-provorovs-faithful-stand-exposes-anti-religious-intolerance-in-the-name-of-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivan-provorovs-faithful-stand-exposes-anti-religious-intolerance-in-the-name-of-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Provorov\u2019s Faithful Stand Exposes Anti-Religious Intolerance In The Name Of Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fivan-provorovs-faithful-stand-exposes-anti-religious-intolerance-in-the-name-of-tolerance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1810617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>\u201cBlessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,\u201d reads Christ\u2019s eighth beatitude in the Gospel of Matthew. It is the most commonly viewed beatitude as a remnant the ancient world by modern Americans. This is because persecution of the faithful in America has been remarkable absent. Every now and then, though, a news story reminds us Christ\u2019s proclamation is just as important as ever.<\/p>\n<p>In the world of virtue-touting sports, there was this episode. The National Hockey League\u2019s Philadelphia Flyers franchise trotted out time-tested corporate symbolism for its \u201cLGBTQ+ Pride Night.\u201d Rainbow-accented warmup gear and sticks were part of the festivities, which were to be sold for unspecified DEI charities. It\u2019s all so predictable that it would have passed without notice, except for one thing: Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov committed the ultimate heresy by choosing not to participate.<\/p>\n<p>His Russian Orthodox faith and his choice \u201cto stay true to myself and my religion,\u201d Provorov made a bold stand. It was, at its core, an act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholiceducation.org\/en\/culture\/catholic-contributions\/submission-to-god.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">submission<\/a>This is the definition of a. \u201cobedience to God in the innermost depths of man in his mind and in his will.\u201d Provorov is a Russian national. He has lived in the United States for a long time and knows that he will be harshly criticized for his decision. His employer might consider him an expendable player, unlike his Russian counterpart Alex Ovechkin. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/29803252\/nhl-launches-initiatives-welcoming-inclusive-mandate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">league<\/a> He will undoubtedly be subject to reeducation. He will be booed at all games.<\/p>\n<p>This is the religion and worship of self-worship that fuels these reactions. Think about the vain responses that people give to the topic.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre LeBrun, Canadian hockey commentator is arrogant <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/18\/who-doesnt-wear-the-ribbon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chastised<\/a>, \u201cDon\u2019t hide behind religion.\u201d Of course, hiding is precisely what Provorov chose not to do, and his religion won\u2019t earn him any societal popularity, even if he somehow were using it for the ulterior motive LeBrun implies.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Inquirer Columnist Marcus Hayes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/flyers\/ivan-provorov-flyers-pride-night-lgbtq-20230118.html?utm_source=t.co&#038;cid=Philly.com+Sports+Twitter+Account&#038;utm_campaign=Philly.com+Sports+Twitter+Account&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">invented<\/a> The narrative that \u201cif you wear your homophobia like a Pride flag, you earn [Flyers coach John] Tortorella\u2019s respect.\u201d He added that he believed, \u201cProvorov refused to warm up \u2026 because he does <em>not<\/em> support the right of LGBTQ+ people to even <em>exist<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget the absence of evidence-based argumentation and the fact a simple internet search would have provided clarity to the Orthodox teaching on these issues. Public voices like this are so confident their understanding of truth is correct that they militantly dehumanize anyone who doesn\u2019t share it. It&#8217;s religious zeal for anti-religion, and intolerance for tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Even more instructive is the next-day press releases curated for publication by major outlets. The follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/35474865\/provorov-negatively-impacted-pride-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a> Kurt Weaver, the COO of ESPN, was asked to post one of the headlines on ESPN&#8217;s homepage. \u201csocial activism partner\u201d You Can Play. The article quoted him six separate times while follow-up quotes from Provorov\u2019s camp or Orthodox authorities were nowhere to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provorov knew he would face severe criticism for his decision, which is why only through his faith in God can such a decision make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":1810620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[15616,6897,12809,6919,5292,15450,15617,8176,15615],"class_list":["post-1810617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-anti-religious","tag-exposes","tag-faithful","tag-federalist","tag-intolerance","tag-ivan","tag-provorovs","tag-stand","tag-tolerance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}