Comments on: Gay creationists in government

By: John

John — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:34:46 +0000

Hessia? Really? It’s Hesse in English, and always has been.

By: Mrs Tilton

Mrs Tilton — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:28:09 +0000

Hallo, Richard. I’d think it highly unlikely Wolff is a believer in biblical inerrancy. She is a member of the Evangelische Kirche, that is, the mainstream Lutherans (in Germany “evangelical” has no connnotations of bible-thumpery; it simply means “protestant”). Unlike most German Lutherans (and RCs), Wolff is not a merely notional member — she studied theology and used to be a religious education teacher. So I’d guess she is knowledgeable about, and down with, her church’s party line; which tends to be reasonably moderate. There are fundamentalists in Germany, but they are few, and tend to belong to small fringe denominations rather than the “official” protestant church.

By: Philip Hunt

Philip Hunt — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:15:10 +0000

And in physics lessons we should teach kids how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:53:26 +0000

It’s not that unknown for gays and lesbians to take up weird and wacky political positions that don’t seem to make much sense - you occasionally get a few in far right nationalist parties as well as fringe religious organisations. It might be amusing to hear what her views on Biblical inerrancy might be though…

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:57:26 +0000

Und das ist gut so.