Madrid, 1st June 2008 (CNA) - The association Educacion y Persona has
denounced a new textbook that aggressively attacks the Church and supports
abortion and is part of the government-sponsored school course Education for
Citizenship. The textbook will be used by 15 year-olds.
The Spanish daily La Razon reported that the textbook “attacks the moral
doctrine of the Catholic Church, parodies the election of a Pope, proposes
Cuba as an economic model and treats the right to abortion as
non-negotiable, with numerous obscene illustrations.”
La Razon pointed to several paragraphs in the text that directly attack the
Church’s teachings on same-sex marriage, abortion and the use of
contraceptives. “Fortunately,” the textbook says, “we don’t have to put
their teachings before those of Jesus Christ.”
Elsewhere the textbook states: “The Church has mobilized itself against this
Education for Citizenship course even mentioning that other sexual options
besides those it sanctions exist. They have tried to take the place of laws
with their gods and churches.”
The textbook also includes illustrations that mock belief in God. In one
such illustration, Adam and Eve are shown being expelled from the Garden of
Eden. “Adam says to her: ‘I warned you, Eve. That idea of us actually
thinking wasn’t going to make the old man happy one bit’.”
