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The father opposes the promotion of homosexuality and gender ideology, which he says is running rampant in his diocese.
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" Church of Mercy? For reasons of conscience, the Catholic refused to make the church contribution and refers to some wrongdoings by the diocese of Feldkirch - Bishop Elbs has the man brought to court
Vorarlberg (kath.net)
Vorarlberg bishop Benno Elbs had a father of six brought to court this Tuesday because he had refused to pay the church’s contribution for reasons of conscience. In his reasoning, NN (name is known to the editors) points out that diocesan employees participated in the rainbow parade of homosexuals and that the diocese overemphasized the pastoral care of homosexuals. According to the NN, the gender ideologist is also taken over by the diocese, Christian associations such as “Teenstar”, on the other hand, receive no support from the diocese.
Purely financially, it is about 400 euros church fee for the years 2016 to 2018. On Tuesday, the first court hearing took place, at which the diocese continued to show hard and did not want to hear theological objections and reasons for the refusal. The next trial will take place on March 31.
Incidentally, NN did indeed pay for the concerns of the church, even sent the tithe and the supporting documents to the bishop. However, he no longer wants to use it to finance non-Christian matters in the diocese.
Church tax has been criticized in Austria for many years. Most recently, the Graz historian Höfer had sharply criticized the “Nazi law” and asked the question: “Why does the church cling to a Nazi law?” "