Although two famous figures of Gyumri, Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) mayor Vardan Ghukasyan and Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) member of the National Assembly Martun Grigoryan, do not tolerate each other after the previous election of mayor, but they have started to copy each other and use the same words. If the mayor of Gyumri, responding to the business established by him in the starving and homeless town, to building the billion-worth “Aleksandropol” hotel, justifies himself, “Who said that a resident of Gyumri doesn’t deserve such a luxurious hotel”, then Martun Grigoryan justifies the existence of a night club built by his nephew on the way to the cemetery in the same manner. “Who said that a resident of Gyumri doesn’t need night clubs and strippers?”
Today Aravot.am asked leader of the Shirak Diocese Bishop Mikayel Ajapahyan to assess the necessity of building both structures for Gyumri and the statements made by them. “I am sorry that such a phrase was voiced that ‘a resident of Gyumri has the right to have strippers, has he not?’ A resident of Gyumri has the right to have many things, but as a Christian, certainly, has no right to have night clubs, not to mention strippers. The existence of a night club is not an achievement, a progress, but it testifies to the dissolution of morals. Having or not having strippers is not a criterion of being educated or advanced, it is a criterion of being far or close to morality. Certainly, if one considers the issue from the perspective of irreligiousness and there is no Christianity and religious feeling, certainly, everything can be in the town, there can also be brothels.”
In his reverence’s opinion, such businesses should not be opened in the town, but even if they are opened by someone’s efforts, they should stand idle. “When they say there is a demand for a club, then there should be one, there is a demand for many things, there is a demand for narcotic, sell narcotic, why don’t you sell it? It is a spiritual narcotic. We live in the atmosphere of immorality and, unfortunately, admit it as normal Christianity.” According to his reverence, we have become so stupid from the moral perspective that we have filled the way to the Cathedral with immoral businesses, casinos and night clubs.
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Referring to the eye-catching hotel of the mayor, Mikayel Ajapahyan thinks again that building such a luxurious hotel in the town with homeless is an issue of immorality. “I am not against a luxurious hotel, let it be, if that hotel will enhance tourism, in order that tourists will come here, stay, spend money and it will be good for this town, let it be, no problem. Therefore, one should bring it from the field of town interest to the field of personal interest, so that he will realize whether it is a good or a bad thing. It is a good thing for the town, luxury and poverty exist side-by-side all over the world, there is no country where there isn’t extreme poverty next to extreme luxury. Now, our town can also have a luxurious hotel and extremely poor people. Therefore, it is not a general problem of the town, it is just an issue of each man’s morality.”
Nune AREVSHATYAN
