Sankt Veit am Vogau
Template:Infobox Ort in Österreich Sankt Veit am Vogau is a former municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark.[1]
Homophobia and Islamophobia
In March 2013 the small town created a large nationwide publicity, when the town's mayor, Manfred Tatzl from ÖVP told falter.at in an interview, "Wir sind hier auf dem Land, Homosexualität verurteilt ein jeder." ("We are living in a rural area, everybody here condemns homosexuality.") and added, "[es gebe] "Gott sei Dank" keine Muslime im Ort" (there were, "Thank God, [...] no muslims in town.")[2] in order to defend the town's reverend Karl Tropper, who had been preaching against homosexuality and Islam for years.[3]
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