In recent days, the case of the transsexual person who goes by the name of “Salma Luévano”, who occupies a seat in the Mexican House of Representatives, has caused much controversy for having proposed a reform to the Law of Religious Associations and Public Worship, with which she seeks to “punish” ministers of worship (but not only these).
If they express opinions that do not coincide with those of LGBT supremacism and gender ideology, which would be taken as “incitement to hatred”.
In other words, if a Catholic priest or a Protestant pastor, for example, defends the natural family between a man and a woman, or opposes “gay adoption” or “equal marriage”, i.e., a religious wedding between homosexuals, examples that do not represent the Christian faith, then their speeches could be seen, from that initiative, as “incitement” to hatred.
Ah, but it turns out that Luévano -who is a member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), the party founded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which is part of the São Paulo Forum- went up to the podium this September 22 wearing a very witty costume, with a miter on his head and a red tunic, in a clear allusion to the Pope.
It unleashed the disagreement of many Catholic groups, which immediately reprobated what they considered offensive, a mockery, and an incitement to hatred (here, yes) against the Church.
Even Protestant political leaders joined the Catholic rejection of Luévano. Former Congressman Carlos Leal, the organizer of the Iberosfera Monterrey 2022 Congress, tweeted:
“What the deputy of MORENA, “Samuel Luevano,” did dress as a Catholic priest in the plenary of the Congress of the Union is unacceptable. As an evangelical, I support @SoyElsaMendez (Catholic) in initiating legal proceedings against this deputy. Together we are stronger!”
Former Queretaro deputy Elsa Mendez, a Catholic, posted on her Twitter account:
“I will prepare a formal complaint to the public servant Samuel Luevano. What he did is very serious and must have consequences. We will see which side justice is on in Mexico. Whoever likes to join in”.
The United Fatherland Foundation, presided by Alice Galván, commented:
“We demand that Congressman Salma Luévano respects those who do not think like him.”
The Youtube channel “Y que viva Cristo Rey” broadcast a conversation with Catholic priest Mario Ángel Flores, who is the director of the National Observatory of the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), former rector of the Pontifical University of Mexico, and is also a member ratified by Pope Francis in 2021, of the International Theological Commission.
“The Church cannot stop teaching what it believes, what it has lived, and what it is convinced of,” he said. “A law that prohibits this, effectively, is not only a gag law, it is persecution, it is an intrusion, it is a lack of recognition of religious freedom. It is an outrage to religious freedom.”
And regarding the Pope’s disguise with which Luévano presented himself, the religious said:
“If one wants to be taken seriously, it should be with seriousness, with arguments, not incitement to hatred, in that sense. Because there he (Luévano) is crossing a red line where he is mocking a whole community, a whole part of society that has its religious values and deserves respect”.
In addition, the bill is a clear setback to human rights, especially freedom of expression and religious freedom, which can be considered new persecution against Catholics.
“And this is fundamental: if there is a legal proposition for us to say this, it is called persecution against the Church, and ignorance of religious freedom, and we cannot allow it”, considers Presbyter Flores. That is how the Church was born, under persecution, but it was not subdued, the priest points out.
Some voices even wonder if Mexico is at the beginning of a new “Cristero War”, about the armed uprising of Catholicism almost a century ago (1926), in response to the so-called “Calles Law”, which restricted religious rights and led to the murder of priests and the Catholic faithful.
In the past, it all began with a law that attacked religion; in the present, the same thing. And in Mexico, there are innumerable expressions of new cristeros, who claim the defense of the faith, but now in the face of the attacks of globalism, progressivism, gender ideology, as well as feminist and LGBT supremacism.
Among the contemporary groups of cristeros is the National Catholic Movement Christ the King, founded 40 years ago, and on its Facebook page (of the Diocese of Cuernavaca), posts that it has filed a “digital complaint” before the National Commission to Prevent Discrimination (CONAPRED), “for open and public acts of discrimination against the Catholic community and anyone who professes a faith”, in allusion to Luévano.
In addition to this, many of these same organizations have agreed to defend the right to life this Wednesday, September 28, and the right to religious freedom and Catholic temples before the call of the global abortion movement that every 28th of this month, in previous years has vandalized temples, burning, desecrating, destroying everything in its path, because they hate religion, which they consider a hindrance to their pro-abortion agenda.
The organizations that have called for the defense of these rights and of temples throughout Mexico, stationing themselves around churches praying the Rosary and in a strictly peaceful manner, are the following:
- Unión Nacional Sinarquista A.C
- Resistencia Católica
- Ejército Cristero Internacional (ECI)
- Patria Unida
- Y que viva Cristo Rey
- Derecha Mexicana
- Chiapas por la vida
- VG1212
- Ciudadano Gobernante
- Frente Chiapas por la vida y la familia
- Consejo interreligioso de Chiapas
- México en Acción
- Fundación Lemon México A.C.
- Somos más
- Patriotas con Dios y María
With information from Gaceta