Germany: Married Protestant [?] Instructor Acquitted of Molesting 14 Year Old Girl

Edit: Neuwied is a town with a population of about 64,318 in Rheinland-Pfalz. There are few Catholics in Rheinland-Pfalz because it was one of those districts in Germany which became Protestant at the time of the Revolt as a result of the Treaty of Westphalia. What the article below and all subsequent articles dealing with the tale won't tell you is that the school is run by Protestants. If it had been a Catholic priest who had committed this deed, he'd be facing prison and the story would be in the Spiegel and Time Magazine for sure.

The comments are pretty interesting. One of them even took a swipe at the Catholic Church while defending the married perpetrator at the same time. There are many who are more upset about puritanical American attitudes than they are that a fourteen year old was victimized by her teacher.

A teacher who seduced a 14-year-old schoolgirl and had sex with her at least 22 times has escaped punishment after a German court ruled that as he did not teach her class, he had not abused his position.

The decision was described on Wednesday as a “catastrophe” by the head teacher of the school in Neuwied in Rhineland Palatinate, while the girl’s parents said they were “totally devastated” – and furious there was no chance to take the case further. 

[The Local] Generally people over 21 can have sex with 14-year-olds unless they abuse the younger partner's "lack of capacity for sexual self-determination" or are in position of power over them.

The district court in Koblenz overruled a 2010 conviction of sexual abuse of a ward – and lifted the accompanying two-year suspended sentenced handed down by other, lower courts, because the judges decided the man was not her teacher.

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This Italian Nativity is a Leftist Obsession: Blasphemy

(Bergamo, Italy) In the so-called social center Paci'Paciana of the extreme-left scene in the north Italian city of Bergamo, a "provocative" creche has been set up. Mary is missing in it and instead, there are two "Josefs" at the crib. Both homosexuals are overjoyed over the child in the crib, which apparently -- in the absence of biological reproductive conditions -- has fallen from heaven by stork.

 The blasphemous creche affords the left-extremists a rationale: The "Holy Family" is a "civil union", which was formed by "artificial insemination with a surrogate mother".  In addition, there is a list of charges about alleged "discrimination" against homosexuals.  The old champions of "civil disobedience", "defenders of the weak and oppressed", Trotskeyites, Maoists, Chavists, antagonists, of correct speech, and more recently "the indigenous", those who would prefer to act as a posse chasing dissidents and  thugs, should not lead one to expect much.

It would be futile to explain to them that Mary and Joseph were married regularly in a synagogue according to Jewish Law.  But why hold close to the historical truth when one's imagination is so much more fruitful, when the "eternal wrath" in the "struggle against the system" is so obliging.

The left has thrown the only woman out of the scene, where the ox and ass are next to the Nativity with "twins" made of plastic (Josef + Joseph), all a strictly male cast to be sure.   This is a gross violation of another progressive favorite theme:  feminism was trampled underfoot by the autonomous communities.  However, it must be added that women never amounted to much in the club milieu of the left-wing scene.  Joschka Fischer is expected to know something about it.  Correspondingly, the "alternative"cradle is an expression of left-wing extremist male dominance and lust for power: gay Joseph, shepherds, the Magi, the boy in the manger, the ox and ass.  Perhaps there is also a pedophile subtext to the scene as well?  Perhaps it is Daniel Cohn-Bendit who can provide an aid to interpret this?

The only female in the manger is the gender for the word "manger" in Italian, perhaps.  The pot from which one eats, but that is also "holy" in this scene.  Probably the only thing that really is sacred.  Finally, can you look to the friendly city and state governments to put you up and feed you for a short while -- how short is the memory --  for the "blessings" of the eastern worker's "and peasants" paradise, especially to be sustained  in the now defunct German Democratic Republic, to give in return for the "anti-Imperialist struggle" and other subversive activities.

What the child in the Manger concerns, which is also found in the left-wing "social center",  is the God become man in the form of a child, it is shown, that even the left-extremists could not get past Him:  One loves the child Jesus or hates Him.  He can not be eluded.  For people, who are of good will, his appearance is an inner peace of self-giving security.  For all others he becomes an obsession.  As He already knew and foretold.

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