Another Spanish Bishop Accused of Hate Speech Over Gender Ideology

Church Militant ^ | 2/21/17 | Rodney Pelletier

[marshmallow]

GRANADA, Spain (ChurchMilitant.com) - LGBT activists are filing a complaint against the bishop of Granada, accusing him of delivering a "homily of hate."

The Spanish Observatory Against LGBTfobia (the Observatory) is accusing Abp. Francisco Javier Martínez of hate speech according to the 2014 Cifuentes Act, also called the "Law to Eradicate Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia."

In a homily delivered at Mass on February 14, the archbishop noted, "I think right now about all the implications of gender ideology, which moreover tries to impose itself as a law in the education of children." He asserted, "There is a pathology behind it. There is a shortness and an awkwardness of intelligence."

Martínez continued:

We are equal in dignity, how can we not be? But we are not interchangeable. ... In life, in real life, we are equal in dignity, brothers and companions, and we have the same destiny: to participate in the new life in Christ. But in everything else, we do not react the same, we do not think the same way. But until that, we lose touch with the natural, and an ideology can teach us the most unlikely things.

The Observatory filed a complaint with Granada's provincial prosecutor's office on February 20, accusing Martínez of promoting "hate speech against LGBT persons." Because the homily was also distributed on the archdiocesan website, the group accuses him of "disseminating a writing whose contents foments hatred and discrimination against people because of their sexual orientation and gender identity."

[Da Coyote]

Accusing one of hate speech is indeed hate speech.

Bring on the war, folks. This can only end in that way.

[marktwain]

Disapproval and hate are not the same thing.

The left demands approval. Anything less is deemed hate. The left lives and breathes hate. They project it to anyone they disagree with.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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