Open letter that there has written Pedro Aliaga (religious Spanish trinitario who lives at present in Rome) through Gaspar Llamazares and he has sent it to the newspaper ABC.
Mr. Swampy soils: I read in the press that has studied formal request to withdraw the cross and the Bible of the oaths of public positions before the King, and that it worries because crossings still stay in the schools and military men parade in the processions. leo en la prensa que ha cursado solicitud formal para retirar la cruz y la Biblia de las juras de cargos públicos ante el Rey, y que está preocupado porque aún quedan cruces en los colegios y desfilan militares en las procesiones.
In Italy, where I live, this question remained settled with the legal decision favorable to the maintenance of the cross in the public places because it is a question of a regarding symbol for the Italian culture. Nevertheless, for you it is not like that, and he believes that it is a question of an offense to the laicism of the State.
I ask him:
Are you going to ask for the retreat of our museums, like offensive, of the Crucifixes of Velázquez or of the Virgins of Murillo? Are you going to present before himself after the Christmas Day is employed at the Congress, for the terrible injustice that represents the rest for all the Spanish of the day of Christ's birth? Does it go to help up to the tower of the cathedral of Toledo, to cover his crossings, which offend the airs of the million tourists who visit the city? Does it go to use with the tickets for 20 euros for representing the Gothic window of an European cathedral, intolerant sample of religious aggression? Is it going to ask to prohibit the Holy Week of Seville, the Pilgrimage of the Dew or of San Isidro, for his load of catholic offensive in the streets that belong to all? Will he ask for the retreat of our libraries, state and that belong to all, of the works of Gonzalo de Berceo, of Lope de Vega and of Galdós, for his clerical, unthinkable propaganda in the lay State? Will it erase the Magisterial one of The Regent's wife? Will he ask the Real Academy that to declare the Glosses Silenses and Emilianenses are already not the most ancient testimonies of the Castilian? Will it erase the surnames of Plain mountains of Saint John or of Villanueva of the Archbishop, or will be used by the names of San Sebastian or of Sant Feliù of Llobregat for imposing on all the citizens a letterhead with adherent religious beliefs? Will it scrape with his chisel the crosses of Calatrava or of Santiago of the municipal shields? Will it liberate to the pig of San Anthony of the obscurantist catholic pigsty, or will you ask that the Cazalilla kettle should be thrown from the House of the People, instead of the belfry of the parish? Will it begin a crusade so that ‘San Fermín Lives’ I transformed in one ‘There lives the lay serenity of the egalitarian State in his playful and/or festive declarations’? ¿Se va a aupar a la torre de la catedral de Toledo, para tapar sus cruces, que ofenden los aires de los millones de turistas que visitan la ciudad? ¿Se va a emplear con los billetes de 20 euros por representar la ventana gótica de una catedral europea, intolerante muestra de agresión religiosa? ¿Va a pedir prohibir la Semana Santa de Sevilla, la Romería del Rocío o de San Isidro, por su carga de ofensiva católica en las calles que a todos pertenecen? ¿Pedirá la retirada de nuestras bibliotecas, estatales y que pertenecen a todos, de las obras de Gonzalo de Berceo, de Lope de Vega y de Galdós, por su propaganda clerical, impensable en un Estado laico? ¿Borrará al Magistral de La Regenta? ¿Pedirá que la Real Academia declare que las Glosas Silenses y Emilianenses ya no son los testimonios más antiguos del castellano? ¿Borrará los apellidos de Navas de San Juan o de Villanueva del Arzobispo, o se empleará con los nombres de San Sebastián o de Sant Feliù de Llobregat por imponer a todos los ciudadanos un membrete con creencias religiosas adheridas? ¿Raspará con su cincel las cruces de Calatrava o de Santiago de los escudos municipales? ¿Liberará al cochino de San Antón de la oscurantista gorrinera católica, o pedirá usted que la pava de Cazalilla sea arrojada desde la Casa del Pueblo, en vez del campanario de la parroquia? ¿Empezará una cruzada para que el ‘Viva San Fermín’ se transforme en un ‘Viva la serenidad laica de un Estado igualitario en sus manifestaciones lúdicas y/o festivas’?
Mister Llamazares: I advise him, before his party should disappear definitely of the Congress, to do all the possible from changing his name into the civil record, since it is unworthy of the State like Spain that you call himself Gaspar, like one of Magi, with clear catholic and monarchical reminiscences that can offend the people whom you represent.
Pedro Aliaga Alonso (Rome)
