Posted on 05/24/2022 8:14:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
Fr. Dariusz Oko apologized for having used 'such strong wording.' He must pay 3,150 euros, and his publisher Fr. Johannes Stöhr must pay 4,000 euros, to a charity.
COLOGNE, Germany (LifeSiteNews) —A German court has fined a Polish priest and his German publisher thousands of euros following their appeal of a previous verdict that they were guilty of “hate speech” against homosexuals.
After today’s hearing in Cologne, Father Dariusz Oko was fined for hate speech and incitement to hatred for an article he published in German theological journal Theologisches in January of 2021. He was given a fine of €3,150 ($3,325 US). The second defendant, 91-year-old Fr. Johannes Stöhr, the editor-in-chief of the journal, will have to pay a fine of €4,000 ($4,222 US). The money will go to a charity.
But according to Polish news website Polonia Christiana, Oko and Stöhr have not been convicted of anything.
“Father Oko must pay restitution to a charity; the court dropped the prosecution. There is therefore no conviction because the prosecutors dropped the prosecution,” it reported.
Polonia Christiana wrote that the Polish priest was satisfied with today’s decision, saying it was “a draw.”
“As Fr. Oko says, it is a draw; the priest expressed regret in the courtroom for using words [in his controversial article] that were too strong. According to the priest, if the offer to pay a fine to a charity was not accepted, the court could ask for the article to be withdrawn in subsequent instances.”
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I hate the Deutschland legal system, for obvious transgressions against old skool Western Civ.
Ridiculous. Catholics pay via their taxes for the clergy.The state now fines the clergy.
So the state there is ostensibly the church, top to bottom.
But German law does not say they control doctrine.
So, are they going to fine Moses or just ban him?
And the Germans just can’t understand why we have the concept of “unalienable rights” built into our Constitution.
In California we have illegalalienable rights. So there.
The Allies didn’t hang enough Nazis at Nuremberg after WWII and now their children and grandchildren are turning the clock back to the Third Reich.
Jawohl!
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