Russian Orthodox Church opposes adoption of children from Russia by citizens of countries that support LGBT. Metropolitan Leonid of Klin, the Patriarchal Exarch of Africa, believes more work should be done on a bill banning adoptions of children from Russia by citizens of unfriendly countries.

"This morning I looked through the list of friendly countries again. And if the political attitude of some of them suits us, their attitude toward marriage (which is a union of a man and a woman), their governments’ approval of gay parades and support for aggressive LGBT communities, etc., make it absolutely impossible to raise an adopted child in a healthy and wholesome atmosphere," the metropolitan wrote on his Telegram channel last Friday.

He rejected an argument that even in such countries there are "normal people who cannot have children and would make good parents."

"Yes! There are good people, but they don't make a difference, no difference at all! In the world today, the concept of "law" becomes increasingly relative. Therefore, we can only give a person for adoption to another country, if that country shares same spiritual and moral values as Russia," the metropolitan stressed.