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Substitute religion of wokeness

Questionable position of the church on the law of self-determination

"As male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27). Church lay lobbies don't care, they welcome the "traffic light" self-determination law.

Rainbow flag at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Freiburg

One of the "big" socio-political projects of the "traffic light" is the "Self-Determination Act" (SBGG), which is supposed to replace the "Transsexual Act" of 1981. All in all, this draft is the practical implementation of the "gender" ideology, according to which there is no connection between biological sex ("sex") and social, self-determined sex ("gender"), and according to which there are not only two sexes or their rare biological special forms, but about seventy gender identities. See the "LGBTIQ Encyclopaedia" of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB).

Already initiated by the parliamentary groups of the "Greens" and the FDP in the last legislative period (unsuccessfully at that time), according to the draft of the federal government of 9 May 2023 (in charge: FDP Ministry of Justice and "Green" Ministry of Family Affairs), the following shall apply in the future, provided - which is to be expected - that the Bundestag passes the law accordingly in autumn: The gender identity or its change ("trans...") and the choice of first name are to be detached from the assessment of third persons (for example doctors) and left to the person concerned "self-determined" qua pure self-disclosure at the registry office. The whole thing may be changed annually and, in the case of 14-year-olds, with the consent of the parents or, in the case of conflict, after a decision by the family court.

In addition, the SBGG is intended to realise the right of the "transperson" to respect and respectful treatment with regard to their gender identity. To this end, there will be a "ban on disclosure". This means: third parties are not allowed to make use of their knowledge of which sex a transperson had before the change of gender identity. In case of violation (= "deadnaming", i.e. use of the "dead" name), a fine of up to 10,000 euros can be imposed.

For the case of tension and defence, the SBGG is to make a balanced special provision in that for service with weapons, the legal assignment to the male sex remains temporarily in place if an amendment is submitted in direct temporal connection with the case of tension and defence.

The "traffic light" assumes about 4,000 corresponding applications per year. The 68-page draft bill as well as the 54 available statements by associations on the subject, which we have tried to obtain in the following, can be found here.

The SBGG will come, because influential lobby groups are in favour of it, even if they only represent mini minorities of the population. This is how 54 mostly approving statements on the SBGG draft came about, including almost twenty from the spectrum of LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex and queer people).

Lay church lobbies on the "queer-woken" path

We have taken an overview of six statements that come from the church sector: three from the Catholic and three from the Protestant sector. One Catholic and one Protestant statement each take a very neutral, sometimes distanced approach to the SBGG draft: on the one hand the statement of the German Bishops' Conference (DBK; 9 pages), on the other hand the Evangelical Alliance Germany (2 pages). The distancing that is recognisable there can be seen in the fact that, in contrast to almost all other statements, the SBGG is not "welcomed" here and the gender asterisk (*) is not used in the respective brief. Constructive criticism comes from the DBK, which sensibly demands a longer waiting period between self-declaration and official entry in the case of a change of gender identity.

The two other statements from the Catholic and Protestant spectrums are sometimes almost euphoric in their approval of the SBGG, and even more so: in some cases, the SBGG does not go far enough for them.

The Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ) wrote 8 pages on which it placed a "welcomed" 18 times and a gender asterisk (*) 37 times. The BDKJ wants the SBGG to go even further, i.e. that adolescents from the age of 14 can decide entirely on their own whether to change their gender or their first name and that, with the consent of their parents, younger people should also be allowed to do so. The BDKJ rejects the planned regulation for cases of tension and defence. (Just as an aside: the BDKJ is financed to a considerable extent by church taxes and by grants from the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs).

The Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) expressed similar views on 7 pages, in which the bill is "welcomed" 14 times and the gender asterisk (*) is used 33 times. The ZdK also criticises the planned regulation for cases of tension and defence.

Diakonie Deutschland submitted 5 pages, 7 times "welcoming" the "traffic light" proposal, 12 times using the gender asterisk (*).

The Evangelische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Familie (Protestant Family Working Group) expresses a similar opinion on 5 pages. It too "welcomes" the "traffic light" project (5 times), 23 times with gender asterisks (*).

Admittedly: We have not studied all 54 statements, nor have we read the last half-sentence of the 6 statements mentioned here. But the impression remains: In the majority, the "traffic light" receives acclamation from (lay) church circles. This was to be expected at a time when the Bible (Genesis: "He created them male and female") plays almost no role in such organisations and has been replaced by the substitute religion of "wokeness", church congresses have become "green" party congresses and "God" is now - however pronounced - called "G*d".

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