Benigno Interview Blanco RodrÃguez, President of the English Family Forum
G. MASTER, S / C de Tenerife
Perhaps no organized mass demonstrations as there was in connection with the approval of gay marriage, but the English Family Forum in its midst captures most of the parents who oppose that their children receive the much hyped subject of Education for Citizenship (EPC). From this point of view, it is a powerful national organization also has the explicit support of the Church and seeks educational this does not apply, or done but only to those students whose parents have decided and not as an imposition. Guest Tenerife by the Civic Platform and Hazteoir.org Christian families, the president of the English Family Forum, Benigno Blanco, explains why the best solution to this conflict is conscientious objection.
"The first thing I tell the families to take a decision released, but real information is that the new subject of Citizenship Education (EPC), as stated in the rule of law, is deliberately intended to form the moral conscience of all children between 10 and 18, and this is a real condemnation of the constitutional right of families to be they who decide the moral content they want for their children.
"Really, what the root cause of CLD?
"So far, the families could decide according to our convictions, but now governments claim the right to interfere in the content and be the ones who decide what moral values \u200b\u200bour children should learn. My proposal is that families refuse to be deprived of this right which is above any other law, is that the love and concern we have for our children makes us want to educate them on traditional morality to be good people and good citizens.
-Teaching values \u200b\u200band morals is always positive, but it seems that the problem lies in the contents that includes the subject. Is it well?
"The contents are of a strong ideological and say the only valid source of moral standards in a democracy are the laws. It is an approach that remains historically known as positivism, but many do not share because not all values \u200b\u200bthat incorporate moral standards are. For example, defending the right to life, in which English law is not very committed and as proposed is inadequate from several perspectives. In any case, what matters is not what is said about a particular thing in a book or another but the conception of morality that inspires the subject, and that's not what we share.
- What is fixed to conscientious objection?
"We've studied the law and we thought it is the most appropriate way parents have to defend their freedom against the interference of government. The fact that some children are in a subject or not the result of that we are in a pluralistic state. Just as there are doctors who practice abortion and others not, or people who received blood transfusions and some do not. In any case, the solution should give us autonomous communities worth anyone who respects the rights of parents to educate their children.
- Do you know the specific case of the Canary Islands?
"Yes, I have reported little more than 200 objections of conscience, but is a process that is beginning. In other communities the process is more advanced and there are about 30,000 objects.
-From the outside it seems that only EpC Catholics oppose
"Not only are Catholics or people linked to the Church, there is everything. What we stand for is freedom and parents who have decided to inform me that I do not object to tell if they are Catholic or not, but what I have clear is that these measures stand for freedom and not the Catholic religion, because what we each parent is educate your child according to their beliefs, whether Catholic, Mason, Protestant, Socialist Party People's Party or whatever.
- What is your relationship to the Zapatero government?
"Unfortunately no, because even though we asked repeatedly to be attended by the Prime Minister or the Ministers of Justice and Education, the dialogue does not seem to be among their priorities and we never have attended. We hope that this legislature has been more democratic spirit and desire to listen to society.
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