– You can not control me. I may have a hard time controlling myself, but that is not the intention either, says Jens Rohde.
According to Rohde, there must be room for different opinions.
And they were presented, as when Verner B. Andersen in Silkeborg presented abortion resistance as an alternative solution to a current problem: the lack of labor.
– We took the lives of thousands of children before they were born. We lack them in the labor market today, says Verner Andersen.
But there were no conflicts or clashes at the meeting.
Rohde, who has a past in the Liberal Party and the Radical Left, joined the party in April, among other things with an unwavering demand that all women have the right to abortion.
– People must ventilate their views, but the party’s policy is completely fixed. There are many interesting views in all parties, says Rohde and continues:
– We will never ever restrict a woman’s right to abortion. Never, says Jens Rohde.
Then one could think that there was fertile ground for at least lively debate in the party, which was created as a protest against free abortion.
But no critics took the stage. On the contrary, Jens Rohde was received by standing ovations. And a speech of praise.
– I’m so happy when I clap before I speak. It is not always that clapping, after I have spoken, Rohde began his speech, which contained many passages from the New Testament.
The latter fell into good soil with the audience.
– You’re doing something the rest of us can’t. You mix Christianity in. When we do, we are told that we are preaching. When you do that, you explain, says Elise Bjørnholt.
One would immediately think that Jens Rohde challenged parts of the hinterland when he stated with the following outburst that freedom rights must not be denied:
– No one should ever hit someone with a bible or with religious scriptures without being contradicted. If someone strikes at minorities or keeps them down, then we must lift them and defend them – regardless of popular affiliation, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, says Jens Rohde.
In parts of the Christian Democrats’ hinterland, there has always been opposition to homosexual marriages and to some against, for example, homosexual couples needing help to have children.
But Jens Rohde was again greeted by applause from at least the majority of the national meeting participants. Also after his speech.
In general, the party’s members are excited that they once again have a member of the Folketing.
– Actually, I like to watch parliamentary debates. But it’s a little more fun now. It is a great pleasure, says Marianne Karlsmose from Tarm.
Rohde points to Søren Pape Poulsen (K) as a good bid for a bourgeois prime minister, and at the same time he voted last week after the opening debate for the government’s plan.
It is natural to cooperate with the government, he believes, if you want influence.
He could not accept the blue block maintenance of poverty benefits for families with children. This is one of the reasons why he voted the party’s only vote in the Folketing red.
– I stunningly do not care if a cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice.
But he wants a bourgeois government, he stresses.
Question: Can the cat also be red?
– No, it can not. Because we do not subscribe to the Social Democrats’ approach. It is a reconstruction of the House at Christianshavn. Basically, we do not subscribe to it, says Rohde.
Source: The Nordic Page