This is what Mixa is reported to have said. It is below in the original.
In explaining his hitting people, he said, "It was completely normal then and all teachers and pupils know that".
Walter Mixa, for God's sake go. Your words have been used by others too. The shame of it is unspeakable, especially for a German. In fact you give insult to all those great Germans who knew that 'completely normal behaviour' can never be the standard for justifying actions. Walter Mixa think of the Scholl sisters.
The logic of your words leads to a frightening conclusion. To hit a young boy or girl in the face on a regular occurrence, especially children living in an orphanage, is a cruelty and it is never right. You talk grand words about the evils of relativism. Please go and go now.
The pomp and nonsense of such an excuse spoken by a man surrounded in such grandeur and 'refinement' is obscene.
Mixa wird vorgeworfen, in seiner früheren Zeit als Stadtpfarrer von Schrobenhausen (Oberbayern) und Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums der dortigen Waisenhausstiftung Kinder geschlagen zu haben. Der Bischof hatte dies in der vergangenen Woche erst nach längerem Zögern und unter großem öffentlichem Druck zugegeben - und das in einer Wortwahl, die nicht eben von Einsicht zeugte: Er könne "die eine oder andere Watsch´n" von vor zwanzig Jahren "natürlich nicht ausschließen", sagte Mixa. "Das war damals vollkommen normal und alle Lehrer und Schüler dieser Generation wissen das auch." Das Züchtigungsrecht an Schulen wurde in der Bundesrepublik 1973, in der DDR 1949 abgeschafft.
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Mixa's position is impossible, but perhaps the worst thing about the whole affair is his complete inability to comprehend this. However, in this, he finds himself in the company of most of those church figures of authority who don't seem to realise that a genuine sense of wrongdoing, a firm purpose of amendment and genuine, visible signs of repentance towards those injured is a fundamental part of the process of dealing with personal failure or "sin."
I think the best description of their position is another beloved old-fashioned theological term - invincible ignorance.
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