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[–] peaches@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, the Abogados Cristianos are involved. Those are some bunch of assholes from what I heard. This is what Le Chat tells me, but there are much more. I found an article here: https://www.diario.red/articulo/actualidad/echenique-queque-willy-toledo-lalachus-larga-lista-ataques-abogados-cristianos/20250103160940040683.html

„ The Spanish Association of Christian Lawyers (Abogados Cristianos) has filed hundreds of lawsuits, complaints, and appeals, but their goal is not necessarily to achieve judicial success—as they know what they are doing—but rather to create a long-term strategy from the right-wing political, media, and judicial spheres aimed at gaining public visibility and undermining the adversary's credibility and rights.

They have done this with the right to abortion, with the law of amnesty, with the law that guarantees consent, and with a long list of attacks (including those against the Ombudsman) from which it is worth highlighting the complaint they filed against the activists who were protesting in the cathedral of Alcalá de Henares against therapy to "cure" homosexuality; against the artist Abel Azcona for a work that denounced abuses in the Catholic Church; against clinics that perform abortions; against the director of the Reina Sofía Museum for hosting an exhibition that included an image of a crucified Christ at the urinal; against the artist Drag Sethlas for quoting "blasphemous phrases" in a performance; against the mayors who removed crosses using the Law of Historical Memory as an excuse; against those responsible for the comic 'El Niño Jesús no odia a los mariquitas'; against feminists in general for the supposed "gender ideology"; against Willy Toledo for calling them "troglodytes" and "ultra-rightists"; against Wyoming for dressing up as a bishop of the so-called 'Aznarian Church' in reference to the latest appearance of the popular leader José María Aznar, accusing him of making "humiliating statements for Catholics"; against the comedian Quequé for a joke on his show about "dynamiting the Valley of the Fallen"; against Pablo Echenique for stating on social media that "it is much more likely for a priest to commit a sexual assault against minors than for a migrant person to commit a crime." And a long etcetera to not bore anyone.

The latest of their complaints has been suffered by the comedian Lalachus, a collaborator of David Broncano's program and presenter of the New Year's Eve special on TVE this year. Why in this case? For alleged crimes of hatred and against religious sentiments after showing an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with the head of the Grand Prix cow during the broadcast of the New Year's Eve special.

The modus operandi of the association backed by Vox is always the same. They aim to create controversy by alleging crimes of hatred and offenses against religious sentiments, spreading these allegations through the media, especially through right-wing media outlets, and ultimately, when judicial recourse is exhausted or dismissed, no one remembers it. In other words, they make politics through lawsuits with the aim of attacking social rights or women's rights and thereby targeting the most vulnerable groups.„