Christl Ruth Vonholdt

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Christl Ruth Vonholdt (* 1954 ) is a German author , doctor for pediatric and adolescent medicine and former head of the German Institute for Youth and Society (DIJG) of the ecumenical community Offensive Young Christians (OJC). Her publications on homosexuality have made her public debates .

Life

Vonholdt studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1981 at the Hannover Medical School with a dissertation on the frequency of recurrences and complications after surgical treatment of primary varicose veins (varicose veins) . She is a specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine.

At the invitation of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Vonholdt took part in a public hearing of the legal committee of the German Bundestag on the draft law on the revision of the civil partnership law on October 18, 2004 . In 2007, at the request of the CDU, she wrote a statement for the legal committee of the Hessian state parliament on the draft law for the recognition of registered civil partnerships in state law. In 2006 and 2009 she was a speaker at the International Congress for Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care .

Positions

Theologically Vonholdt first describes the unity of man and woman as complete human beings and marriage as an icon of God. She sees sexuality as energy connected to the body, which is intended to reach the opposite sex. Sexual intercourse between people of the same sex has always been rejected as a sin in Judaism and Christianity, because it misses the goal of determining the creation of man as man and woman, to reflect the essence of God as an image. In the Old Testament, homosexual partnerships were rejected because they were not “an image of the archetype”. She rejects the idea that the primal longing of all love is the longing for one's own self, as "pro-homosexual". The Bible states that the goal of human relationships is reaching over to you. She considers the argument that homosexuality is natural and therefore must be willed by God to be a Gnostic aberration that is diametrically opposed to biblical belief. With Rosenstock-Huessy she is of the opinion that marriage is not something natural, but wrested from human nature , which is afflicted by original sin . Sexual intercourse between people of the same sex is rated negatively wherever it is directly mentioned in the Bible; According to Vonholdt, however, the pagan environment of the authors of the Bible upheld homosexual eroticism. As a sin, such eroticism is a failure to achieve a goal and thus ultimately self-harm.

Vonholdt theologically rejected practiced homosexuality in 2005 as " sinful ". Psychologically, she considers homosexuality to be a symptom of a deep-seated disorder caused by “deep emotional wounds in early childhood”, such as the “unsatisfied need for love and attention from the same-sex parent”.

With this approach, she advocates reparative therapy for people with ego dystonia related to their homosexuality. In the context of such therapies, a change in sexual orientation is a possible consequence. The argument that homosexuality is innate is, in their opinion, not scientifically but politically motivated. Bishop Andreas Laun considers her the "most competent and best connoisseur of homosexuality".

The American Psychiatric Association's 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses was also a political decision, not a professional one. Quoting Charles Socarides , she points out that this was due to the impulse of a few activists who had accomplices in the APA leadership. This created an injustice for lesbians and gays, because it prevented them from finding psychoanalytic help. The diagnostic key was then restricted to ego-dystonic homosexuality. According to Robert L. Spitzer , who was involved, the opinion of some psychoanalysts at the time that homosexuals could never be happy and that homosexuality was a serious illness, a serious personality disorder, was not shared by the responsible committee.

Vonholdt describes studies that are supposed to show that homosexual couples can raise children with the same good results as heterosexual couples under the same conditions as methodologically inadequate. According to her statement, children who grow up in such partnerships are “more likely to have homosexual experiences”. She cites studies that she interprets to mean that male homosexuals are mostly not loyal to their partner (in the sense of the classic heterosexual understanding of loyalty). Homosexual or bisexual people also suffered significantly more often from mental illness. According to their interpretation of these studies, the rate of violence in homosexual relationships is at least twice as high as that in heterosexual relationships.

Melanie Steffens and Christoph Wagner criticize the fact that, under Vonholdt's leadership, the DIJG distorted research on sexual orientation and represented positions that were not in line with unspecified professional ethical principles of academic health professions on a national and international level.

Vonholdt politically calls for no form of statutory regulation that could “promote homosexual behavior”, in particular the recognition of same-sex marriages . She sees such regulations as “a reinterpretation of marriage” that will have “destructive” effects on the next generation. The demand for same-sex marriages intervenes “deeply in the notion of marriage and family that has been handed down in human history”. Through sexuality outside of heterosexual marriage "marriage is further undermined and devalued". The legal recognition of homosexual couples would “confuse numerous young people in their identity, encourage them to experiment sexually and try out whether one is homosexual or heterosexual, and make it much more difficult to find a heterosexual identity”.

Publications

Books

  • Recurrence frequency and complications after surgical treatment of primary varicosis. Dissertation at the Hannover Medical School, Hannover 1981
  • (Ed.): Striving for Gender Identity: Homosexuals and Christian Counseling. A workbook for the Church. Self-published, Reichelsheim 1996
  • with Gerhard Besier & Hermann Klenk: Christian hope, cosmopolitanism, living together. Yellow mammoths on the mountain. A publication by the German Institute for Youth and Society. Festschrift for Horst-Klaus Hofmann . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 1998, ISBN 3-7655-6326-9
  • (Ed.): Wounded Femininity. Understanding gay-minded women. Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen / Basel 2005, ISBN 3-7655-1348-2

Essays

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ idea: Specialist: Nothing is stronger than a relationship with the mother ( memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , AdventEcho online (Advent-Verlag Lüneburg), May 29, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.advent-verlag.de
  2. ↑ Public hearing: Draft law to revise civil partnership law . Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  3. ^ Opinion for the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag . Retrieved February 5, 2010.
  4. ↑ Christl Vonholdt: Statement for the legal committee of the Hessian state parliament on the draft law for a law for the recognition of registered civil partnerships in Hessian state law (printed matter 16/7331) . Retrieved February 17, 2010.
  5. ^ Academy for Psychotherapy and Pastoral Care: Program (PDF; 6.5 MB), viewed May 11, 2009.
  6. ↑ B. Gissrau: Woman's longing for woman. Zurich 1993, p. 172.
  7. ↑ a b c Christl Ruth Vonholdt: A Question of the Image of Man - Why Homosexuality is Sin. In: Zeitzeichen 6, 2005, pp. 33–34.
  8. ↑ Christl Ruth Vonholdt, Andreas Laun, Norbert Geis et al. (Ed.): Gay marriage. No to the yes word from a Christian point of view. Bernardus-Verlag Langwaden, Grevenbroich 2001, ISBN 3-934551-34-3 .
  9. ↑ Christl Ruth Vonholdt, 2006: For freedom and self-determination . In: Bulletin 2/2006 of the German Institute for Youth and Society ( online ).
  10. ↑ Ego dystonia in statements Vonholdt is responsible for:
  11. ↑ Christl Ruth Vonholdt: Statement on the press release of the anti-discrimination office in Leipzig at www.DIJG.de, November 7, 2006, viewed March 27, 2010.
  12. ↑ a b Christl Ruth Vonholdt: Understanding Homosexuality , Bulletin of the German Institute for Youth and Society, special print autumn 2006, version from March 23, 2009
  13. ↑ Verena Ahne; Bert Ehgartner; Thomas Hanifle: Debate: Is homosexuality innate or the product of special circumstances? , profil.at, November 19, 2005.
  14. ↑ Christl Ruth Vonholdt: Interview with Robert L. Spitzer: Homosexuality and the real chance for change. In: Bulletin of the OJC , 1/2001, p. 27
  15. ↑ a b c Rudolf Zewell: Interview with Dr. Christl R. Vonholdt: Identity - Why the idea of ​​man and woman is questioned. In: Rheinischer Merkur. No. 29, July 15, 2004 ( online version at DIJG , or as PDF ( memento of the original from October 11, 2008 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nbc-pfalz.de
  16. ↑ a b Christl R. Vonholdt: Homosexuality and the wrong ways of the church. DIJG, archived from the original on November 4, 2010 ; Retrieved January 20, 2010 .
  17. ↑ Melanie Caroline Steffens; Christoph Wagner: Discrimination against lesbians, gays and bisexuals. In: Andreas Beelmann: Discrimination and Tolerance: Psychological Basics and Application Perspectives . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 9783531157320 , p. 241 ff., 250 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Vonholdt, Christl Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vonhold, Christl (misspelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, doctor, board member of the German Institute for Youth and Society
DATE OF BIRTH 1954