Germany’s Social Democrats have broken a taboo in modern German politics by taking aim at the religious beliefs of a close aide to Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after a Sept. 26 election. In a video published online, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD) singled out a number of leading conservatives including Nathanael Liminski, who heads Laschet’s office in his regional government in North Rhine-Westphalia. Liminski, a practicing Roman Catholic, gained attention as the voice of Generation Benedict, a church group he co-founded following World Youth Day 2005, which supported the positions of Pope Benedict XVI. “Whoever votes for Armin Laschet and the CDU, votes for … ultra-Catholic Laschet confidants for whom sex before marriage is a taboo,” the narrator says as the video shows a Russian doll bearing Liminski’s face, inside a bigger doll bearing Laschet’s face.
German SPD goes on the attack with jab at rival’s Catholicism | Euronews
German SPD goes on the attack with jab at rival’s Catholicism | Euronews
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