The president of the Institute for Family Policy in Spain, Eduardo
Hertfelder, recently accused the Spanish government of working to
transform society and turn it against man, human life and the family.
On March 9, Spain’s Health Ministry, headed by Leire Pajin, made
$139,660 available to the homosexual community to create a public
awareness campaign aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS among same-sex
couples.
Hertfelder told CNA the next day that the purpose of the campaign is to promote the use of condoms.
He said the move was another confirmation that “Pajin doesn’t have
the political will either to reduce AIDS or to create a truly
informative sexual education campaign."
Rather, he continued,
Pajin "intends to support communities that are completely ideologically
driven.”
Hertfelder called the plan a complete misuse of tax-payer money
characteristic of Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's
administration. “He promotes many things that are detrimental to the
human person,” Hertfelder said.
The way to reduce the spread of AIDS is not by funding the homosexual
community or promoting the use of condemns, he continued, but by
empowering “those measures that are designed to reduce and prevent
sexual relations (among same-sex couples) and thus promote chastity.”
In the past year, the Spanish government has liberalized the
country’s abortion law and legalized same-sex unions.
It has also
championed the school course Education for the Citizenry, which critics
say promotes secularism, gender ideology, abortion and undermines
parents’ rights to educate their children according to their own moral
convictions.