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German Pastor Sentenced to a Year in Jail for Comparing Abortion to
the Nazi Holocaust
By Elizabeth O'Brien and John Henry Westen
ERLANGEN, Germany, June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A city court in
Erlangen, Bavaria, gave Lutheran Pastor Johannes Lerle a one year jail
sentence for the "crime" of comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust.
In response, Jim Hughes, Vice President of International Right to Life
Federation has called on pro-life activists internationally to take
action on the matter by contacting German authorities to demand
freedom of speech and freedom of religion for the pastor (see contact
information below story).
Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the annual murder of 150,000 babies
through abortion in Germany to the murder of thousands of innocent
Jews in Auschwitz. The court, which consisted of no jury and a single
judge, ruled that this statement made Lerle a holocaust denier.
On 14 June, Judge Erda Erdenhofner convicted Lerle of a particular
crime known as "volksverhetzung", or "incitement of the people".
During his address to the court, Lerle defended himself and claimed
that his statement was in no way taking away from the gravity of the
sufferings of the Jews.
The German Catholic news service kreuz.net reports that the reason for
the severity of the punishment is in part due to the pastor's six
previous convictions, which have seen the pastor serve two prison
terms lasting eight and a half months in total. He was formerly
imprisoned for calling abortionists and their aides "child murderers."
Brussels Journal reporter Paul Belien notes that German courts have
slammed other pro-life advocates with heavy sentences for similar
statements. German pro-life advocate Günter Annen, for example, was
reported by the Journal as having called for an end to "unjust
abortions" in 2005. She received a 50-day jail sentence on the grounds
that her claim that abortion is "unjust" is legally inaccurate. The
courts decided that her words wrongly implied that abortion is illegal
in Germany.
Pope John Paul II underlined the parallel between the Nazi Holocaust
and abortion, which he calls "legal extermination," in his book
"Memory and Identity" (2005). He wrote, "It was a legally elected
parliament which allowed for the election of Hitler in Germany in the
1930s." He also pointed out that the same country that declared Jews
non-persons less than a century ago has ruled that unborn babies are
not persons either (see
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022306.html).
Angela T. Wu, International Director of the Becket Fund, an American
organization that guards the freedom of religious speech, commented to
LifeSiteNews.com, "If these reports are true, this is a harrowing
example of a growing trend of government laws that control its
citizens' viewpoints and stifle the free speech rights of religious
organizations and practitioners."
She continued, "Whether or not you agree with the pro-life position,
Pastor Lerle and those like him must be allowed to freely espouse his
and his church's views on the issues without fear of government
reprisal. While Volksverhetzung laws exist in Germany because of its
unique history, that is no excuse for illegally violating the
international human right to freedom of belief, which must include the
right to profess those beliefs, even those of a controversial nature."
Calls to the German Embassy in Ottawa for comment were not returned by
press time.
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11010 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 30 20 00-0
Fax: +49 030 20 00-19 99
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Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1
10557 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 180 272-0000
Fax: +49 1888 272-2555
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Prime Minister of Bavaria
Dr. Edmund Stoiber
Postfach 220011
80535 München
Germany
Tel: +49 89 / 2165-0
Fax: +49 89 / 29 40 44
E-Mail: ministerp...@stk.bayern.de
Minister of Justice in Bavaria
Beate Merk
Prielmayerstr. 7
80335 München
Tel: +49 89 5597 1799
Fax: +49 89 5597 3580
Email: beate...@stmj.bayern.de
Mayor of the Town of Erlangen
Dr. Siegfried Balleis
Rathausplatz 1
91052 Erlangen
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Tel: +49 9131 86-0
Fax: +49 9131 86-26 92
Email: o...@stadt.erlangen.de
Local Court Erlangen
Familiengericht
Richterin Frank-Daupin
Mozartstraße 23
91052 Erlangen
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Tel: +49 9131-782 01
Fax: +49 9131/782-361
(No email address available)
German Embassy in Canada
1 Waverley Street
Ottawa, ON, K2P 0T8
Tel: 613-232-1101
Fax: 613-594-9330
Email: germanemb...@on.aibn.com
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See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Pope Compares Abortion to Holocaust in his New Book
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05022306.html
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