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Josep-Ignasi Saranyana, Professor Emeritus of Theology

At the beginning it was the difference

Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:14:00 +0000 Published in La Vanguardia

Victims, for decades, of abuses of all kinds subject and unjust violence, homosexuals, lesbians and bisexuals now seek to respond with a strategy of power. And so, in order to avoid the undue supremacy of a majority over a minority, they try to cancel differences, considering them as the simple effect of a historical-cultural conditioning.

According to a tactic that is also repeated in other latitudes, they seek to take power by parliamentary means, and want to force everyone (officials, teachers, parents, youth and children) to undergo a re-education, reminiscent of the Chinese cultural revolution imposed by the Maoists years ago; an aggression now not bloody, certainly, but coercion nonetheless, since it is based on fear. Politicians, journalists and intellectuals are threatened with a subtle and insidious pressure; and cowed by the fear of losing fame, job opportunities or votes, they retreat to their barracks, leaving to do as they please. Very few voices are raised, warning of what is coming.

The tactic of fear always works: we have seen it in Can Vies, with the chicken that a few have raised, and we see it also in the stealthy processing and the almost nocturnal way that the Parliament has imposed itself in the matter of the law for the GLBTI. "Trías, we have a problem", said La Vanguardia a few days ago; and now, imitating the wonderful letter of Màrius Carol, we could say, with the astronauts of Apollo XIII: "Houston (that is, people of Catalonia), we have a problem!" And we do not want to sail forever in the sidereal space.

What is the starting point for the solution? In the beginning it was the difference (man and woman) and there is no one who can move it. Anthropology asserts it and whoever is unhappy in this world, let him be angry with Moses and his hagiographers or with whoever, because the difference comes out to meeting every day and at every step.

And although there are very respectable minorities that behave in a different way, it is not from receipt that the fewer subjugate the more, preventing the latter from even being able to think differently or live in a different way.

Or are we already in that world prophesied by Aldous Huxley, in which a few extorted the most, disposing of the lives of the majority and imposing on them a certain way of living?