Guest: _Ioannis Mellisinidis' Olympic Comeback / Byzantine Gay MarriageFrom NYC: 1) Ioannis Melissanidis became the youngest Olympic champion in the history of men's gymnastics and the first one in 100 years for Greece … plus, the first Greek gymnast, male or female, to medal at the European and World Championships ever. Named one of the 100 most important people of the 21st century.2) Guest 2: Stephen Morris, Author of: Back When Men Could Marry Men: When Brothers Dwell in Unity–the Surprising History of the Orthodox Christian Church. This former gap lain at Columbia university unearthed a trove of liturgical evidence to solidly back that… far from forbidding man-to-man relationships, Byzantine Christianity had rites akin to marriage to sanctify them what we'd now call same-sex relationships.
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