Hi all,
Last week the Spanish government passed the bill to allow gay marriages. That makes Spain the third country in Europe, after Belgium and Holland, where gay and lesbian couples can get married. This, of course, has incensed Papa Ratzi and the Vatican, and also some of the religious authorities in Spain. Cardinal Trujillo, for example, called judges who disagreed with the bill to refuse to marry gay couples. Representatives of the socialist Spanish government, though, pointed out that judges are not above the law, whether they agree with it or not. In fact, the cardinal's statement is a call for civil disobedience, which is a crime!
So, these days the right-wing radio sation COPE is full of conspiracy theories, calling also for the illegalization of the Basque communist party and claiming referees are helping Barca to win the primera Liga! And it gets better and better, Real Madrid appealed against every single yellow card they were shown during their last match against Villarreal and the Spanish football federation rejected those appeals. Must be some kind of socialist-gay-Catalan-Basque- separatist lobby behind this, surely...
Summarising, the Church and the PP (Aznar's and now Rajoy's right wing party, defeated in the last elections) are still living a few thousand light-years from the real world.
Jordi
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Hi Jordi--
Great to see you posting!
On her blog, Alphonse has a link to an article in the Telegraph (!) about the church protests to gay marriage, including one idiot saying "the laws of God must be obeyed before the laws of man." He clearly wants to go back to the days of Theocracy. Or Franco.
At least when Franco was in power you could expect Madrid to win something!! Ha Ha.
Hola, Jordi!
I'm glad to see you here.
By the way, did you hear about the mayor of a town called Pontons? After the bill was passed, he stated he would never marry gay couples, which he considered 'handicapped' people ('tarats', in Catalan). Nice.
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