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A court in the Andalusian city has opened an investigation over supposed crime “against religious feeling”
A court in Sevilla has opened preliminary proceedings against the waffle shop La Verguería for its ‘Portal de Belén’ nativity scene made out of waffles in the shape of penises and vaginas.
The franchise La Verguería was already a controversial establishment in Spain thanks to its specialty in suggestively shaped waffles, but now some think the erotic pastry shop has gone too far.
Specifically, far-right political party Vox and the Spanish Foundation of Christian Lawyers have brought a complaint against La Verguería for their Belén, which is a traditional Spanish Christmas decoration showing the birth of Jesus Christ, because the baby Jesus and Joseph are both represented by penis-shaped waffles, while the Virgin Mary is shown as a vagina.
The 15th Examining Magistrate’s Court in Sevilla is determining whether this constitutes a “criminal offence… against religious feelings”.
In its declaration, the Foundation of Christian Lawyers condemned “a crime of mockery of religious feelings” because the “erotic Nativity Scene shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph represented by genitals”.
“It constitutes a vexation towards what these figures represent for Christians, since the scene of the Nativity Scene is ridiculed… It is seen as an attempt to offend religious feelings.”
The trial comes two years after three women were acquitted of any wrongdoing after parading through the streets of Sevilla carrying a large latex vagina in their self-proclaimed “procession of the Anarchofraternity of the Most Holy Vagina and the Holy Burial of Social and Labour Rights”.
A spokesperson for Vox in Sevilla said “We hope that justice will put a stop to this type of increasingly common practice of generating controversy, always at the expense of the Catholic religion, its icons and the Church. Behind all this there are millions of Spaniards who have been suffering from these offensive acts for too long now” because “an unscrupulous businessman has decided to offend Christians in the most hurtful way.”
The so-called ‘unscrupulos’ owner and manager of the waffle shop in question has defended the nativity scene, stating that “The Virgin Mary and Joseph and the child also have genitals and if they made the child, they procreated in the way that we all know. It’s just the way it is; there is no other way.”
He went on to say that the traditional Belén in some parts of Spain involves other potentially indecent elements that nobody complains about: “There is a man in Catalonia who is defecating in the nativity scene. I think we all have to take it a bit more with joy and humour.”
He finished by extending an offer to make a waffle-based Belén scene for anyone who wanted one in their home: “If someone is interested because they want to set up a nativity scene at home, we can do it too. For people who don’t want to come to the shop, just don’t come. And everyone who wants to come is invited.”
Image: Silvia de Carrión
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