Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Internet Kid Reads Ichabod

1 comments:

bruce-church said...

New president of Germany was a Protestant pastor in former East Germany. He's been cohabiting for twelve years with a mistress without seeking a divorce from his wife who bore him four children. Sounds like he's a Stephan or a Barth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Gauck

He was additionally criticized by individual CSU members for not being married with the woman he cohabits with.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,816721,00.html

Joachim Gauck (born 24 January 1940; pronounced [joːˈʔaxiːm ɡaʊ̯k]) is a German politician, Protestant pastor, and former anti-communist civil rights activist in East Germany.

Norbert Geis, a CSU expert on family issues in the German parliament, went even further. In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse, Geis suggested that Gauck, who has been together with his current partner for 12 years despite never having divorced the mother of his four children, might want to clean up his private life. "It is likely in the interest of Mr. Gauck himself to impose order on his personal situation as quickly as possible so as to avoid providing an open flank."