AfD party leader defends same-sex relationships despite party stance
The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, who lives in a same-sex civil partnership, distanced herself on Sunday from part of a regional party manifesto backing the traditional family model, saying she lives “something different.”
“They can write whatever they like. I live something different,” Weidel said in response to a question from RTL/ntv about the election manifesto of the AfD in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The manifesto states: “An intact family consisting of a mother, father and children has been proven to be the best foundation for a child’s healthy development.”
Weidel lives in a registered civil partnership with a woman, with whom she is raising two children.
“If you ask me personally: my children have the best upbringing and the best opportunities,” Weidel said on the sidelines of the AfD party conference in the eastern city of Erfurt.
“We are now living in a completely different reality. So same-sex relationships must be treated equally,” she added.
Weidel nonetheless defended her party’s fundamental stance towards the traditional family model. “When, as a politician, I speak of a societal ideal - and that is currently the traditional family - I can advocate it and there is no contradiction,” she said.
Source: DPA International via Microsoft’s MSN
a lesbian nazi is wild… like literally supporting people who want you dead?
Wait until you hear they’ve got a Jewish organization, too (only in German, sorry)
well some jews in the middle east are really good at killing arabs and they hate those more.
The afd started out of hate/fear of war refugees of the Arabian spring and euro criticism from the Greek bankruptcy.
It’s not as much of a contradiction as you would think. It used to be less ultra right with a bourgeois wing that was well educated. There has been a schism since with those people leaving in the face of a blatant radical and extreme right. They always were (far) right, still.
I tried to be somewhat neutral, speaking from memory and not fact. Feel free to read up if you need citations :)
The emphasis here is on “used to”. It would not have been as much of a contratiction ten years ago, but the times of the retired economy professors are gone. And Weidel herself is a creature of the contemporary ultra-right AfD, so the contradiction is as strong as it seems.