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
In this interview video, one of the interviewers talks about how they (a trans man) and a man dating a Hispanic partner were both members of a murderous white supremacist neo-Nazi organisation. This is not, by a long shot, the only similar cases I’ve seen, only the first which came to mind.
In my own country, a neo-Nazi group which tried to register the White Australia Party had a member with Central American heritage in their own flash mob (Alexander Gabriel Mare), and infamously had a love-hate relationship with this absolute clown of a member (fun video, even if sometimes confronting, with a happy ending).