To lay this out....Jens is a intellectual gay CDU conservative politician. He's been around 20 years.....married (gay-wise)....probably one of the three best debate folks in Germany.
Jens and his spouse....wanted a kid.
In Germany....the law is blunt....you can't pay a woman to have a kid for your situation. You can pay her as a prostitute.....but paying-to-have-a-kid....is illegal (German logic).
Jens and the spouse...figure this other angle....pay an American woman.
Jens and the spouse find this American gal (probably through a service), and nine months later....they (Jens and the spouse) have a kid.
Naturally....the CDU Party folks are pretty peeved (at least acting this way), and some want Jens to resign from the party.
Chancellor Merz? He's in a fairly weak position and has to find some way to cease the hype on this mess.
On my scale of scandals (1-to-10)? It marginally gets to a '3'.
Top news for ARD/ZDF (public TV news)? That is the odd thing.
My five questions?
1. What exactly did Jens and the spouse pay? For the service, and ordeal....it has to be a minimum of 100,000 Euro, and I could easily see it going toward 150k Euro.
2. How would you pay this? In cash?
3. Is it just odd that the Green Party and SPD Party say nothing much....just the CDU folks?
4. The odds that 500 gay couples in Germany each year pay some American gal at least 50,000 Euro for this 'service'? They are smart....not saying much of anything.
5. Could Jens have handled this better....by saying he paid some transwoman American for the kid?
It is a odd scandal, and it just seems like the news folks are desperate to find something to get folks 'focused'.
If Jens resigns? I suspect a number of gay CDU-voters....will just up-and-walk-away.
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