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

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        9 hours ago

        Lesbian ourobourus eating her own ass is poetic somehow. Like Peter Thiel on a solid gold crucifix.

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        12 hours ago

        shes the attempt at batesian mimicry for the far right, if she acts and look like far right groups, maybe she wont get eaten, in reality she is pretty defenseless, harmless.

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          I dont get how someone like her even gets involved much less embraced by such a party and political base.

          Heard of self-hating people in parties that should hate them too like Cash Patel and whoever that jackass brown guy who was running before their Primary was but the AfD gay chick leader is an insane development.

          They do love a self-hating speciment tho

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      20 hours ago

      Not really. She doesn’t even live in Germany but in Switzerland. She’s not governed by the laws her party wants to implement.