• German cardinal echoes Nazi viewpoint on women

    The Nazis' 3 roles for women: church, kitchen, kids.
    The Nazis’ 3 roles for women: church, kitchen, kids.

    These people have no shame.

    Cardinal of Cologne Joachim Meisner told the Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper this week that he wanted to see German women having more babies rather than leaving the home to develop careers and earn money.

    Sure, a man who never had a family is the go-to person on advise concerning family life.

    Where are women really publicly encouraged to stay at home and have three or four children? One should intervene here and not – as Mrs Merkel does currently – present immigration as the solution to our demographic problem.

    Father, how is this any different than how the Nazis felt women should be “encouraged” to behave? It is really too bad the journalist never brought that up.

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