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Hazte Oír’s vehicle on February, after it was confiscated by the District’s Council Police of Madrid, shortly after it began to circulate. The situation caused a series of protests not only in Spain but around the world. The circultation of the bus is the collective’s response to the campaign of the Basque association- Chrysallis Euskal Herria, which is in favour of the rights of transsexual children. Currently, this bus is traveling across many South American countries sharing their messages.

THE SMALL PLANE The president of Hazte Oír, Ignacio Arsuaga, announced that a small plane would travel around the beaches of Spain in favour of the right of freedom of education for parents and children, responding to “the gag rule LGBT” of Podemos. Hazte Oír has not revealed the motto of the campaign by air yet, but it assures it will be “impressing”. The objective is to send a message against “the gag law of the LGTB collective”. “We demand that we let children be children without interfering in their development, emotions or sexuality. Minors deserve respect; we are against

“To admit the persecution of ideas that bother some or many people is not democratic; it would be like supporting the biased vision of the politic power as an instrument to impose a philosophy (…)” FOTO: AFP

and doctrine, quoting sentences from other emblematic cases in which the accused were exculpated since there was no “specific degrading intention”. “To admit the persecution of ideas that bother some or many people, is not democratic; it would be like supporting the biased vision of the politic power as an instrument to impose a philosophy that seeks to replace the old theocracy with a new ideocracy”, state the judges in the edict. The messages of Hazme Oír are “not criminal as unpleasant and aggressive as

they might be”, according to the Hearing of Madrid. The judges even referred to the “Tramabus” of the political group “Podemos”, in which there are messages against corruption and “identifiable figures of politicians and some journalist”, whose dignity and alleged innocence must be also respected. Despite of that, no judge has stopped the circulation of the bus. The verdict corrects the resolution of the Instruction Court No. 42 of Madrid, which prohibited the circulation of the

indoctrinating them in classrooms”, says Arsuaga. This movement has risen up against the law, which will “make possible to impose ideologies through education, manipulate web pages and books, and chase down associations considered as homophobic”. In September, after the voting on the law LGBT in the Congress of Deputies, the second part of the protest by bus will begin; the bus’ motto that used to be “The boys have a penis, the girls have a vulva” will have “some modifications”, stated Arsuaga.

August 2017 / Impacto evangelistic

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