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LifeSiteNews ^ | MADRID, January 29, 2009 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

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Thursday January 29, 2009

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Children Can be Compelled to Receive Homosexual Indoctrination against Parents’ Wishes: Spanish Supreme Court

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MADRID, January 29, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After three days of debate, the Spanish Supreme Court has declared that parents do not have the right to opt out of a national civics program that includes indoctrination in homosexualist ideology and other offensive elements.

The program, "Education for Citizenship," teaches children to make a "critical evaluation of the social and sexual division of labor and racist, xenophobic, sexist, and homophobic social prejudices" and instructs teachers to "revise the student’s attitude towards homosexuality." It was formulated by Spain's Socialist Worker's Party, which has held power since 2004.

Following the implementation of the program, families sued to secure status as conscientious objectors in the State of Asturias, where the local Supreme Court ruled that they could not exempt their children from the course. They then appealed the case to the Spanish Supreme Court, which ruled against the families yesterday 23-7, in a plenary session.

Organizations representing dissenting families were defiant, arguing that the decision was unconstitutional, and had no authority over the autonomous provinces of Spain.  They also announced plans to appeal the ruling to the nation's Constitutional Court, and beyond.

Parents who refuse to allow their children to attend, "are not committing any crime or illegitimate act with their children" said Benigno Blanco, President of the Spanish Family Forum, who also stated that "nothing is changing except for the four cases analyzed by the Supreme Court; all of the parents who have administrative or judicial coverage are perfectly able to impede their children from entering the classes."

Responding to the call of Spain's Minister of Education for all provinces to comply with the decision, Blanco stated that "the Minister can't give orders to the Autonomous Communities" and added that she "can't change the Constitution nor human rights. That is higher than the hollow words of the Minister."

Spain's socialist political establishment, however, was jubilant.

"I celebrate that with this the debate is finished," said Spain's Justice Minister Fernandez Bernejo, who added that "this situation has been created by the bad decisions of some autonomous communities who haven't fulfilled their obligation to educate children well."

Contact Information:

Embassy of Spain in the USA
Ambassador D. Carlos Westendorp y Cabeza.
2375 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
Telephone: (202) 452-0100; (202) 728-2340
Fax: (202) 833-5670
E-mail: embespus@mail.mae.es

Embassy of Spain in Canada
74 Stanley Avenue , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1M 1P4
Telephone (613) 747-2252, 7293, 1143/241-0542(24h)
Fax (613) 744-1224

For a list of Spanish embassies around the world see
http://www.spanish-living.com/info_embassies.htm

Related Links:

Manifesto Against "Education for Citizenship" (Spanish)
Manifiesto contra la Asignatura "Educación para la Ciudadanía"
http://servicios.ceu.es/manifiesto/manifiesto.aspx

Previous LifeSiteNews Coverage:

Spanish Supreme Court Deadlocked Over Allowing Families to Opt Out of Homosexual Indoctrination Program
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09012709.html

Legal Status of Catholic Church in Spain Threatened over Opposition to Mandatory Pro-Gay Citizenship Course
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07081003.html

Gay-Friendly "Diversity Training" to be Mandatory in Spanish Schools
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jul/07072508.html

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[ConservativeMind]

The program, “Education for Citizenship,” teaches children to make a “critical evaluation of the social and sexual division of labor and racist, xenophobic, sexist, and homophobic social prejudices” and instructs teachers to “revise the student’s attitude towards homosexuality.”

Welcome to the new Inquisition.

[Izzy Dunne]

Coming soon to a socialist state near you..

[massgopguy]

And what if they won’t “revise” their attitudes?

[NYer]

this situation has been created by the bad decisions of some autonomous communities who haven't fulfilled their obligation to educate children well.

Translation: religious intolerance.

Catholic Ping
Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[Pyro7480]

Saint James, pray for Spain!!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Colostomy bags for everybody!

[the invisib1e hand]

And what if they won’t “revise” their attitudes?

Well, clearly, their children will be "repossessed" by the state, which has made the presumption that it owns them to begin with.

Wonder when people will start acting like they matter...

[muawiyah]

Not surprising that Socialism requires training in homosexual behavior.

[Wallace T.]

Ideally, the United States should offer and grant refugee status to Spaniards, Germans, Canadians, and others who are persecuted for their adherence to Christian morality by being subject to government sanctions for opting out of homosexual indoctrination, home schooling their children, or preaching from the Bible regarding sodomy. However, the current regime would like such measures to be in place universally in this country, and would have no interest in Christian or traditionalist dissenters from other nations settling here. In fairness, these abuses took place while President Bush was in office, and not a word was spoken by the State Department to denounce these actions, which are human rights abuses.

[tioga]

God have mercy.

[pogo101]

What the heck is a “sexual division of labor”?

Is that like saying, “Make her do all the work”?

NTTAWWT.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“Coming soon to a socialist state near you..”

It’ already the law in Massachusetts.

[livius]

It’s the law in many US states, and I’m not sure to what extent parents can opt out. We just did it more quietly and in a piecemeal form.

Spanish education is controlled by the central government of Spain, so this will be imposed uniformly all over Spain. Families - in fact, hundreds of thousands of Catholics - have been in the streets demonstrating against this, although of course that’s never reported in the US press (or even in the Spanish press, for that matter - you have to be there to even know it’s happened).

One thing I am sure Barry wants to do with his Education Dept. is impose a uniform program like this on all US schools.

[Rummyfan]

the Spanish Supreme Court has declared that parents do not have the right to opt out of a national civics program that includes indoctrination in homosexualist ideology

Europe is dying due to a lack of children, yet they teach homosexuality in the schools. Cultural suicide....

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[dsc]

Now, see, if not for Franco, they could have been doing this for the last 70 years, and it would be just about complete now.

Oh, wait a minute. I forgot that Franco was a bad guy. Good thing Spain finally got rid of him so they can get on with the program.

[dsc]

“Welcome to the new Inquisition.”

Nothing the Inquisition ever did was comparable in any way to this.

It’s about time that the Black Legend was laid to rest.

[ConservativeMind]

So you are contending that the Spanish Inquisition was either greatly worse or greatly better than this.

Which was it?

[Antoninus]

Interesting. But no worries. There are almost no children left in Spain.