Starting from the next school year 2007-2008 students in Spanish schools will find a new subject on their curriculum, “Education in citizenship” (one of the innovations of the Organic Law on Education), which according to Catholic family associations is a “violation of parents’ freedom to choose the education they wish for their children and imposes the particular ideology of the government in the educational system”. The Spanish Family Forum has also expressed its opposition to the new subject and set up a watchdog on the question; it is open to international cooperation. One of the fears is that the so-called “ideology of the international feminist and gay movement” will be imposed through it. María Luengo, of the Spanish Family Forum, told SirEurope she had confidence in the mobilization of families: “We hope that with the massive conscientious objection of parents the government will react and remove this subject from the curriculum”. In Maria Luengo’s view it is clear that “education in citizenship is an attempt to impose the ideology of gender which, although it has positive aspects, defends a mistaken conception of the human being and of society”.
