Pussy Riot, fresh out of prison, is set to make an appearance at the Barclays Center February 5 for an Amnesty International benefit concert. Certain members of Brooklyn’s Russian Orthodox community, predictably, are not happy about it. Serge Lukianov, an Orthodox priest, called the event “satanic,” and called it appalling that “people are making them into heroes.”
“Anyone who desecrates a church, synagogue, or mosque is not a hero,” he added.
I can only imagine what Lukianov thinks of The Flaming Lips, who are also on the bill. Here’s that band’s “Jesus Shootin’ Heroin.”
