Spain’s Supreme Court has re-confirmed that the nation’s public schools are to press on in their mission to promote postmodern gender identity nonsense.
The ruling came after the court dismissed an appeal presented by the Catholic Confederation of Parents and Parents of Students (CONCAPA), in which the latter protested a Royal Decree (157/2022, March 1st).
The decree established requirements for a “gender perspective” in public primary education, to the detriment (albeit not outright elimination) of religious instruction in schools.
The court, for its part, found that this was compatible with the country’s constitutional guarantee to religious freedom, thereby ruling against CONCAPA’s appeal. Indeed, the Supreme Court cited that the decree disallowed religious discrimination, arguing that CONCAPA’s case “seems to be based not on the regulation contained in the Royal Decree under appeal, which expressly prohibits what the plaintiff fears, but on its subsequent practical application.”
In other words, CONCAPA is denouncing “future, and therefore hypothetical, actions.” The court, therefore, found itself unable to rule on “any uncertainty that may arise in the interpretation and practical application” of the decree, stating that “we cannot now resolve in advance any possible future non-compliances.”
The appeal also argued that the decree’s terminology violated the educational system’s neutrality. Terms like “gender equality” or “gender perspective,” CONCAPA maintained, are ideological constructs.
The Supreme Court, however, washed its hands of this debate, referring to “European Union standards,” which apparently have established that such terms do not trespass into ideological terrain. This is to say that the terms represent official EU (and U.S., and UN, for that matter) ideology, and so are not up for questioning by the lowly likes of Spanish legal authorities.
Of course, the ideological bent of both the Spanish government that formulated this decree and the cultural paradigm prevailing internationally leave little doubt as to the intention behind introducing a “gender perspective” into public education and the ultimate displacement of anything resembling traditional religious instruction.
Catholics who take their beliefs seriously will need to take the predicament they’re in seriously as well, understanding that the legal system is, by and large, against them.
