SSPX calls on German Justice Minister to apologise

Request to the Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries

The SSPX calls on the Federal Minister of Justice Zypries to withdraw her discriminatory statements against the SSPX.

Ms. Brigitte Zypries, Federal Minister of Justice (SPD), defamed the SSPX in a terrible manner. We demand an immediate withdrawal of these allegations.

Because the SSPX plans at the CSD in Stuttgart to hold a vigil for the keeping of God's commandments, its members were described in an aggressive statement from Mrs. Zypries to the Catholic News Service as "religious extremists", who should be dealt with in the same way as the extreme right. Even comparisons with Islamist fundamentalists have been made.

We urge Ms. Zypries to immediately withdraw these allegations.

According to the Basic Law, every person in this country the right to freely express their opinion in speech, writing and image (GG Art 5 para 1). The SSPX possesses this freedom along with any other citizen. We proclaim the commandments of God as contained in Holy Scripture, and one of these is: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." If it is now banned in Germany, to make public God's commandment, then the constitutional foundations of religion (GG Art 4 para 1) have been undermined.

We therefore ask openly: Do confessing Catholics have fewer rights in the country as those who agree with the preceding opinion.

Are the words of Mrs. Zypries not a serious attack on the fundamental rights of a Catholic minority to ensure that their convictions can also be publicly known, along with everyone else’s?

By what right can a minister place Catholic clergy on an equal footing with Islamist fundamentalists?

The preamble of the Basic Law refers to the responsibility of the German people before God. We openly ask: Who is still for the Christian values, which once were held by the founding fathers of the German constitution?

Was not homosexual activity nor in the 60's a criminal offense (Penal Code § 175 / repealed in the 2nd Criminal Law Reform of July 4, 1969)? Does no one in Germany note the unimaginable loss of values?

Those who today in Germany condemn the practice of homosexuality becomes public enemies and are stamped as terror suspects. Ms. Zypries' comments are going in the direction of a dictatorship over opinions.

Pater Andreas Steiner, spokesman for the SSPX in Germany

German Justice Minister sees extremist tendencies in SSPX

Federal Justice Minister Zypries compares SSPX with extreme right-wing

Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries has raised the extremist tendencies of the traditionalist SSPX before. "In dealing with such religious extremists, the same things must apply as when dealing with the extreme right," urged Zypries.

Utterances of the SSPX have made it clear that democracy and freedom are not just threatened by Islamic fundamentalists.

The Minister described as unbearable the appeal of the SSPX on the eve of the Christopher Street Day (CSD) in Stuttgart. At the end of July, the SSPX has called people to a vigil in the Baden-Württemberg state capital. At the CSD " wild and obscenely dressed " people parade through the streets "happy in their own perversion."

And further: "How proud we are when we read in a history book that there were courageous Catholics in the Third Reich who said: 'We do not go along with this madness!".Likewise, it is again daring to be Catholic! "
Appeal to the Catholic Church

The printed text of the latest newsletter of the SSPX is an "intolerable insult to the victims of National Socialism and a defamation of homosexuals," said Zypries. She called on the Catholic Church to draw a clear dividing line.

The church should not tolerate under their roof, or even only in their shade, such fanatics who produce such outrages" the Minister said on Monday evening at a book presentation on "Strategies of the extreme right." Politicians of the Green Party had already urged that the SSPX should be monitored by the authorities charged with the defence of the German Constitution.
SSPX reject criticism

The SSPX rejected the criticism in reply. The reference to Nazi injustice was "completely misunderstood". The SSPX had "neither in intention nor in reality wrongly equated the CSD with the Nazi regime," insisted the German District Superior Franz Schmidberger at the weekend.

However, according to Christian moral standards, the norms of the CSD are "immoral". This should be made known to the public according to Schmidberger.
Cathcon sees tendencies to stupidity in Ms Zypries

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EU consider sanctions against Bishop Williamson

FTD.de - Heimkehr des Holocaust-Leugners: EU prüft Sanktionen gegen Williamson - Europa

The half-apology for his denial of the mass murder of Jews could be of little use to the Bishop. Upon his return home to Britain the EU's Justice Ministers are considering legal action Williamson. Also, the German Minister of Justice wants “to deal with him". The Holocaust denier Richard Williamson following his return to Europe can expect to be prosecution. The European Framework Decision on action to combat Racism and Xenophobia could offer a tool against the priest of the Catholic SSPX, said the EU Presidency spokesman, Czech Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil in prior discussions with his counterparts on Friday in Brussels. "Personally I think it's possible, but it must be discussed," said Pospisil.

The crucial question is whether, as racism and xenophobia were criminalised under national law added Pospisil. The Williamson case is not yet on the agenda of the Council of Ministers: "We could think about it more in the future." Even Federal Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries advocated action against the priest, who publicly denied the destruction of millions of Jews in gas chambers by the Nazis: "In any case, he has arrived in the EU," said Zypries. The Regensburg Prosecutor is already investigating Williamson after his statements made in a TV interview in the Bavarian town of Zaitzkofen. An arrest warrant or extradition request against the bishop has not yet been issued.

Williamson on Wednesday returned from Argentina to his home in Britain. He apologized to the Pontifical Commission responsible for traditionalists for his remarks: "I'm sorry, these statements are to have made." The content of his allegations however the SSPX member would not take back. The case has attracted worldwide attention, because Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the exclusion of the priests from the Catholic Church. Williamson refused to comply with the call of the pope to retracts his statements.