The president of the Episcopal Conference, Juan José Omella, denounced this Monday that "the current educational model does not adequately ensure the neutrality of the State" and has accused the Government of "discriminating" against Christian students. During the Plenary Assembly of the bishops, Omella has implied that the Executive does not respect article 27 of the Constitution, which "recognizes the right of parents to educate their children in accordance with their moral and religious convictions", by the way in which it has promoted, through its most recent laws, the implantation of "gender ideologies" in schools.
Throughout the legislature, the Episcopal Conference has maintained a discreet profile in relation to the changes that the Government has been making in educational matters, for example, regarding the reduction in the importance of the subject of Religion, the prohibition of subsidizing educational centers that separate by sex or the obstacles to the concerted school. Although all this hurt him, the Church has evaded the confrontation. But this Monday Omella has been very hard. The recent regulations of the PSOE-Unidas Podemos coalition, such as the Families bill, the law of only yes is yes and, above all, the Trans Law, have been the last straw.
"Families must demand the right to be able to choose the education they prefer for their children, without being penalized by the model they choose for themselves. We observe that the current educational model does not adequately ensure the freedom of families and the neutrality of the State guaranteed by our Constitution, which recognizes the right of parents to educate their children in accordance with their moral and religious convictions", said Omella, after warning of the "ideological substitutes programmed with other interests" that exist in the school and claiming " an educational proposal that promotes an affective-sexual education freed from gender ideologies and that promotes a learning path in the healthy integration of instincts".
Two days after feminists denounced that schools are forced to denounce parents who object to their children changing their sex, as EL MUNDO has published, the highest representative of the Spanish bishops has come out in defense of the family, as "an alternative to the individualist, utilitarian and detached model of modernity, which is causing so much psychological and emotional damage to people and which ultimately makes social life and human development unsustainable".
He has reported that there is a "vertiginous increase in depression, anxieties, existential anguish, eating disorders, addictions, suicidal thoughts and attempts, which are affecting not only adults, but particularly children, adolescents and young people." It is not just a school problem, she has implied, but the "sign of that dissatisfied groan" emitted by a "society" that seeks "guidance and a firm proposal."
What the bishops propose, as an alternative to the current situation, is "a free educational system, regardless of the private or public ownership of the center, which respects the freedom of parents to educate their children." In other words, in the context of a politicized school, in their opinion, they are asking the government to comply with the law and conveniently finance, as is done in other European countries, a subsidized school that now "is always at risk of being cut or suffer arbitrariness by the public powers".
For this, it has offered as a solution the school check, an educational financing system that consists of the State giving parents an amount of money or a redeemable voucher so that they pay the expenses of the educational center where they want to enroll. "Couldn't the school check be the true neutrality and freedom that we ask of the competent Administration?", She asked. And it has thus reminded the Government of its duties: "The State cannot forget its duty to respect the principle of subsidiarity and avoid identifying with a certain educational model, ideological affiliation, or ownership of the school. Otherwise, our State would be passing to being a secular confessional state, discriminating against Christian citizens or citizens of other religions".
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