The satirical magazine Mongoliadirected by Darío Adanti and Pere Rusiñol, has made the aesthetic bad taste and verbal burricie one of his hallmarks. You may like it more or less, but in these times of irritable fine skin it has become the thermometer of the diminishing limits of freedom of expression. They carry on the back a lot of complaints and some of them, turned into sentences, have left them on the verge of an economic coma.
After being sentenced for a photomontage by Ortega Cano that was intolerable to the cartoonist, now we have a new chapter: Mongolia has just been accused of mocking the Catholic religion after a complaint from the fundamentalist pressure group Manos Limpias, little brother of the ridiculous Christian Lawyers. They were, by the way, the ones who recently denounced Judit Martín, Toni Soler and Jair Domínguez, the TV3 comedians who mocked the Virgen del Rocío in a gag. And that complaint is also accepted for processing in a court.
It is true that, if we review the previous cases of complaints like these, it would be normal to think that both Mongolia and TV3 comedians they will be acquitted: in Spain it is not easy to be fined for attacking the “religious feelings”, A completely vaporous concept, although sometimes the trials last for years, as happened to the late Javier Krahe and the video where he taught how to cook a Christ in the oven.
However, in this field it seems to me more interesting, at the current moment of politics, that we look at in the text of the complaintsthat is, in the arguments of the complainants, because between the lines we see that the crime for which they denounce does not seem sufficient to them, and rather they are willing to revive the crime of “blasphemy” in our country.
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Given that Manos Limpias and Abogados Cristianos have certified influence over Vox and this party could be placed in a privileged position to legislate for the next legislature, the texts of these complaints they could be anticipating the future.
Will we see the revival of the crime of blasphemy in Spain in the next four years? Will legislation be followed in this direction, given the Catholic fundamentalism that operates within Vox through its relations with religious pressure groups? This Sunday, when the ballot boxes are uncovered, a calculation can be made on the future legislation on blasphemy in Spain in the 21st century.