Before anyone gets too excited and thinks I must be mistaken, let me remind all of who I am and who my father is. I have researched the issue and the person(s) involved and my conclusion is firm. There’s no polite way to say this so I’m just going to go ahead, throw the Truth out there, hope it sticks to someone (sort of like homemade napalm) and hope that in the final analysis, Orthodox Christians of all jurisdictions (both “canonical” and “non”) will see reason.
For several years, one Barbara Marie Drezhlo has been masquerading on the internet as an “Orthodox Christian” blogger, of the Russian flavor.
It is my great sorrow, to inform you that sadly this is not the case at all. Barbara Marie Drezhlo is a sad, pathetic transgendered person (wtm) who is in the midst of a serious identity crisis. This person is not in an Orthodox parish, canonical or otherwise.
For the record, I have no issue with “transgendered people”. I do not make pronouncements about other people’s sexuality, or their lack of it, or their proclivities. What I have a problem with, spy’s daughter that I am, is “disinformation” and “misdirection”, commonly known as “smoke and mirrors”. We used to call this “lies” and “falsehoods” but I bow now to political correctness and hope that those with half-a-brain, will see reason, and stuff what remains of their brains, back into their heads.
Barbara Marie Drezhlo was on my radar for several years but now, I can no longer ignore “her”. She has gone after my own priest, and several people I hold dear, with her particular brand of phyletism (a heresy in itself) and ethnically based vitriol. She/He deserves whatever he/she gets!
Her real name is Stan. Stan has suffered from a sexual identity crisis, presumably all his/her life. This is unfortunate and sadly, there are no easy answers to such dilemmas. However, the answer is never found in hatred toward other people, or groups, or “targets” of unjustified “wrath”.
We all know where such “wrath” is bound to lead: straight to Hell, do not pass Go, and do not collect $200, no matter what your sexual orientation or sexuality is/was/dictates. The answer to any of life’s problems is never found in finger-pointing, juvenile ranting on the internet, or baseless accusations against people whom one does not even know personally. I think all Orthodox Christians can agree on that, at the very least.
I make no judgements on Stan/Barbara’s current gender/sexuality crisis, nor do I make any judgments about the sex change operation which he/she underwent. I only posit that such a person is hardly qualified to make “biblical”, “theological” and/or “spiritual” pronouncements on the state of the Orthodox Church in America, either today, or next week, or frankly, for the foreseeable future.
I invite others to draw their own conclusions. And please: if you have even one ounce of sense, you will caution any catechumens you happen to know about Stan/Barbara’s well known blog “Voices of Russia”. This is neither a “voice” in Orthodoxy, canonical or otherwise, and is instead an exercise in the sound of a tree falling, ever falling, eternally falling, in an under-crowded wood.
http://ad-orientem.blogspot.com/2010/06/keyboards-at-twenty-paces.html
http://voxclamanti.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-wanna-be-konvertsy-filth-too.html
http://www.monomakhos.com/2011/04/the-dumping-ground-the-toxic-culture-of-clerical-homosexuality/
And the “piece d’ resistance”, Stan/Barbara’s own admission of transgender crisis:
http://www.lauras-playground.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=98
And now, my personal note to Stan-Barbara:
Dear Stan/Barbara:
Forgive me as I do not wish to even get into the subject of how you currently wish to be addressed. It is too confusing for me and I’m sure, far above my silly head. Nonetheless, let me make one thing very clear to you: You are on my radar and have been for a very long time. It is only now, when you have chosen to attack those I love and cherish, that I have turned the sights and spotlight onto you. You are now engaging people in my immediate sphere of influence who are very much beloved, no matter your particular brand of hatred and vitriol. And you should be made aware, if you are not already, that there many, many people, many, many Orthodox Christians who will gladly lay down their lives for these wonderful men and women whom you have targeted.
Your personal identity crisis is of no concern to me, and frankly, I think you are simply the sound of one hand clapping, all in all. But when you turn toward those I love, you should reserve your energy for looking behind you. Where I will be, waiting to give testimony against you, both in person and on the internet, and through every legal and available means.
It is very important for you to remember Stan/Barbara that, those of us who have shunned the world, and are not “of it”, also have a capacity for acting outside of it.
Best regards,
Columbina
