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
You might think it’s a contradiction, but it isn’t.
Law for thee, but not for me.
Simple as.
AFD’s leader is lesbian? Next thing you’re gonna tell me US president’s wife is an immigrant!
Weidel’s a lesbian who doesn’t live in Germany and has a non-white immigrant partner. So she pretty much represents the opposite of what her party stands for or wants to stand for.
Makes me wonder why she’s part of a far right party then…
Unless it’s a thought process like “it’s the others, not me!1!!”
Does remind me of the whole gay republicans thing in the US (I guess it is the same thing though)
She doesn’t realize they will kill her if they get their way. Well, after.
Wait wait wait… She expected a far right party would accept her reality? In which reality is she in?
IMO: Purely optics / strategic. She knows that Germany is not homophobic enough for the party to keep getting more voters with their current stance. They used extreme views to get their first, extreme voters, now they are trying to grab the big votes from the center.
“C’mon guys! Can we try and keep the hate directed at other minority groups, please? That’d be great. Thanks.”
Wouldn’t help that much since her partner is a non-white immigrant.
Lol! I think she took a wrong turn somewhere when she signed up for this job.
Hey Alice. Google Ernst Röhm. There’s your future
She’s the leopard, though
Leopardes ourobouros
Not really. She doesn’t even live in Germany but in Switzerland. She’s not governed by the laws her party wants to implement.
Poor reading comprehension there. Read the comment you’re replying to again.
She’s against this policy (so not the leopard) and she’s not living in a jurisdiction where her party operates. She’s neither leopard nor the one getting her face eaten. She’s merely scum outside this metaphor.
She is part of the leopard party and is helping them accomplish their evil goals. She’s a leopard.
She’s the head leopard, even.
Yeah but she’s one of the good ones! /s
Keep fighting yourselves, you dumb assholes. Don’t ever stop until the last of you drops. Our stupid country doesn’t manage to keep you at bay, maybe you do.
Quisling.
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And racist. Right?
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