German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/182, pp. 23698-23699.
Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
The left-greens can primarily do one thing: Discover ideological fighting words. Today, a new one: Sidewalk harassment [Gehsteigbelästigung], discovered by gender ideologue Ulrike Lembke.
Filiz Polat (Greens): What rubbish
is this, then?
All forms of relevant harassment are nevertheless today culpable, or are a violation of an ordinance.
Christina
Baum (AfD): Right!
Thus why now Gehsteigbelästigung? An Orwellian newspeak.
You want to demolish basic rights of Christians and defenders of life. For you, it is not about climate clingers who block hundreds of thousands of motorists, or about tens of thousands of leftist extremists seeking to prevent with violence an AfD party day, and also not about Islamists who in their fighting prayers conquer our public space. You find all of that to be fantastic or democratic or acceptable. Yet when Christians and defenders of life make use of their right to freedom of opinion or freedom of assembly, then you hollow out [drehen Sie hohl].
The Federal Administrative Court on 23 May 2023 clearly held that defenders of life may demonstrate in front of pro-family abortion centers.
Filiz Polat
(Greens): What then is that for a term?
I cite:
“There is in a pluralistic society
no right to remain entirely exempt from the confrontation with divergent
religious presentations or opinions.”
With that, all is said.
You present in your draft law the assertion that, by means of sidewalk harassment, counseling offices and abortion clinics would be hindered in their activity, or those pregnant restrained from entering them.
Canan Bayram (Greens): No, the
women are hindered in their counseling possibilities. You need to read it
correctly, Frau von Storch!
A dumb thing, that is a dumb thing! You know that. For that, there is no statistic, there is no survey, there are no police reports, there is simply nothing. You discover a problem which does not exist so that you have a reason to proceed with state repression against Christians and defenders of life.
It is little surprising that the preparation for this comes from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which in 2021 published an evaluation with the title, “Possibilities of Statutory New Regulation in the Conflict Field of Sidewalk Harassment”. The author: Sina Fontana. And here it becomes interesting, since Frau Fontana has written another evaluation with the title, “Universal Women’s Rights and Islamic Law”.
Götz Frömming
(AfD): Oh! An interesting alliance!
Fontana therein wrote that the Scharia is quite wonderfully compatible with women’s rights. That is the Greens: Criminalize Christian prayers because against women’s rights, but praise and extol Scharia because good for women’s rights.
Christina
Baum (AfD): Unbelievable!
The central point: Who like the Greens and the Linke defend Scharia, for them it is not about women’s rights, but for them it is about the fight against our culture.
Canan Bayram (Greens): You have a
Scharia fetish, Frau von Storch!
And in this culture war, the green Verbot parties want to silence critics, naturally with friendly support of the FDP. One prayer or the protest of defenders of life: 5,000 euro fine. Here in the Bundestag, to name a specific first name in a specific context: 1,000 euro fine. The Green catalogue of fines for forbidden expressions will soon become very long.
Gero
Clemens Hocker (FDP): Expensive for you, Frau von Storch!
This law is unconstitutional and breathes the spirit of a totalitarian Green ideology.
Canan Bayram (Greens): A court
still decides, and not you, what is compatible with the constitution!
And the CDU wants to forbid the prayers, but thinks for that the right of assembly suffices; you have indeed said it, and Frau Breiler also on Wednesday in committee. Alone the FDP – not alone the FDP is responsible, but it shares in all of this.
Lukas Köhler
(FDP): Your confusion is noted.
Alone the AfD stands for defense of life and freedom of opinion.
Ladies and gentlemen, to me you will not forbid prayers, and also not the expression of the male name of Markus.
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