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Was not homosexual activity nor in the 60's a criminal offense (Penal Code § 175 / repealed in the 2nd Criminal Law Reform of July 4, 1969)?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
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Comments
Bill Vlasic
New York Usa
yep, mostly the only ones speaking loud and clear.
In the beginning, I found the comments linking homosexuality with Nazism, as referenced, over the top. But Ms. Zypries' comparing the FSSPX themselves to Nazis is even worse. I'm glad to see they're forcefully picking up her gauntlet.
Every German citizen has rights under their constitution. They are quite rightly demanding an apology from a government minister for defamation. Could you explain why they are "not in a position" to do so?
And as for the Holy Father's recent Motu Proprio, it seems to have escaped your attention that the SSPX proposals have been followed to a tee: first free the Old Mass, then lift the excommunications. After that begin doctrinal talks. Finally regularize the SSPX. These are the steps the SSPX requested of Rome. Bishop Fellay does not want regularisation until the doctrinal issues are settled.
Your bitterness against the SSPX (for whatever reason) is obvious, but please try to be fair.
Take a good chest workout,
Run a mile,
eat some oysters.
have some methandrostenolone.
Do something to blow off steam,
other than bash Catholics,