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
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)
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“Get them! Destroy them! … not me, though. You don’t get me.”
Or that his grandma was an immigrant 6 months along with his dad who got to be a citizen because of the birthright rules.
She is an immigrant from a second world (oficially, in my opinion as a Slovenian: third world) country. But importantly, she’s straight, cis, non-disabled, neurotypical white immigrant, so it’s fine apparently.