Dancing with the madness

Every year holidays ... return associated with a legal dance and Amüsierverbot. Dance floor tight, closed theater: it was also the case yesterday, Good Friday. The Green Youth has therefore Munich at 12 noon clock called a flash mob silent on the City Hall. Equipped with headphones, participants danced for five minutes long each, and put a mark against the church-motivated ban.

Also this year is with the Christian Good Friday, a quiet holiday in some states a general prohibition again accompanied by dance and other public events. The Young Greens in Munich and in many other cities in Germany called for dancing to protest against the so-called ban on dancing. At many places took place on Good Friday because of a silent flash mob,
danced to music from where their own headphones. "In a country where there is constitutional under applicable law, no state church, religiously motivated bans are not absolutely contemporary. We
understand it, if Christians want to mourn the death of Jesus that day and no one want to restrict the exercise of his faith. But should not this grief all citizens are forced, "said Dominik Krause, Chairman of the Young Greens Munich.
The ban on dancing is regulated by national law and is based on a statement of the Basic Law, which states that still serve the Holidays' rest from work and spiritual edification. " Similarly, the church founded the ban, it was about the spiritual welfare of the people. Jamila Schaefer, Member, Board of the Green party youth in Munich: "It's nice that church and state efforts to collect the soul of all residents of Germany. However, this should not happen by paternalism. The exercise of a Christian tradition may be imposed by the secular state to anyone.
In addition, we believe that one can not only get through grief, but also by dancing to spiritual elevation. "
The Young Greens Munich therefore calls on to the dance ban, as in many other European Staaaten eliminate, Germany's final. In an enlightened and professing belief state is definitely not a place for religiously motivated bans. "