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Pope Benedict XVI
during his lifetime: accusation of queer hostility
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»Because of the article »Ratzinger, one of the biggest anti-queer agitators died«, the Berlin police are investigating our editorial team.« The portal queer.de reported this on its own behalf.
A police spokesman confirmed the report to the Evangelical Press Service (epd) in Berlin.
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Suspicion of »denigrating the memory of the deceased« .
The obituary published on December 31 rumored that the trademark of the late Pope Emeritus Josef Ratzinger was »homohate«.
The police spokesman said the complaint was filed against queer.de on New Year's Eve.
Queer.de publisher Micha Schulze stuck to the controversial classification in an article on Monday.
Even as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger described homosexuality as “an objective disorder” that gave “moral cause for concern”.
One focus of his pontificate was the fight against legal equality for lesbian and gay couples.
Schulze stated that he did not want to voluntarily give the police any information.
"Even the preliminary investigations and the assumption of an initial suspicion go far too far," he wrote on the portal.
But his trust in the rule of law and freedom of the press in Germany is high enough.
He announced that he would hire a law firm.
The German Union of Journalists (dju) appealed to the public prosecutor to stop the investigation immediately.
"Long-winded investigations or charges by the public prosecutor's office would be an attack on press freedom," wrote state manager Jörg Reichel on Twitter.
Conservative Catholic clergy probably see it differently.
The highly controversial Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki complained at the weekend that after Benedict's death, many felt called upon to classify and judge his term of office theologically and church-politically.
"Not a few followed the current patterns of secular and ecclesiastical criticism against the background of their personal view of what the church is or how it should be or how they think it should be in any case." According to these standards, the deceased could But Pope Emeritus will not be judged, according to Woelki.
Benedict XVI
died in the Vatican at the age of 95.
According to its own information, Queer.de is the German LGBTIQ online medium with the widest reach, with around 1.5 million visitors per month.
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