.- The
civil rights watchdog website in Spain, Hazteoir.org, has denounced a
new course for elementary schools which the Ministry of Education has
included in an education reform bill, saying the subject material for
the course, called “Education for Citizenship,” is nothing more than
the promotion of secularism, gender ideology, radical feminism and the
culture of death.
Analysts of the
website carried out a study of the subject material which the Ministry
of Education sent to organizations that are supporting its efforts to
pass an education reform bill that is now before the Spanish Senate.
Alejandro
Campoy, a member of the group, warned that the bill contains proposals
that lack the neutrality that “corresponds to a non-sectarian State”
and that consist of “very clear elements from specific socio-political
ideologies” linked to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual movements.
Ignacio Arsuaga,
president of Hazteoir.og, called the course “a direct attack on the
consciences of citizens who profess the Catholic faith and, in general,
of all citizens who do not share the secular vision of the government.”
Arsuaga said he
was hopeful the Spanish Congress could modify the bill and eliminate
the course from elementary school curricula. Such a move, he
said, would demonstrate that Socialist legislatures are “willing to
dialogue” instead of ignoring yet again “a large segment of
society.” He said the website would organize a campaign to call
on parents to object to the material and to refuse to allow their
children to attend such classes, and that the organization would offer
legal assistance to parents to help “defend in court their right to
object.”
Professionals
for Ethics, another group working with Hazteoir.org to oppose the new
law, issued its own critique of the proposal, saying the course would
be a potential instrument for ideological indoctrination in the schools
and constitutes an attack on the Constitution, which recognizes the
right of parents to educate their children according to their own
convictions.
Civil rights groups denounce ideologically based elementary school course
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