Three women are facing charges
for "crimes against religious sentiments"
after mimicking Spain's Easter processions and replacing the 'virgin
mary' with a giant plastic vagina.
The women, who have not been named, allegedly mimicked Spain’s infamous
holy week processions that take place in the run up to easter.
They "carried a plastic vagina a couple of meters high in the style of
the 'virgin mary'," said a Seville-based judge.
Many Spanish religious festivals feature processions during which locals
carry a statue of the 'virgin mary' above their shoulders.
The prosecution argue that the women made a mockery of this religious
practice by lifting the plastic vagina onto their shoulders and parading
it during a march organized by the Spanish union the General Workers’
Confeneration (CGT) on May 1st.
Some of the women also wore mantillas, the black lace veils commonly
worn by devout Catholic women during religious celebrations in Spain
while others sported the conical hoods commonly worn by the members of
religious brotherhoods over Easter. The women have been ordered to
appear in court in February 2016 for a crime against religious sentiments.
Miguel Sevillano, head of the CGT in Seville said that the women were
part of a feminist group who had "nothing to do" with the CGT.
Sevillano did argue however that he did not see any similarity between
the giant plastic vagina carried by the women and Spain’s usual Holy
Week processions, but he stressed he had "nothing to do with its
creation."
Sevillano stressed that the march was in honor of Workers' Day, a
public holiday in Spain.
The union "carries out no activities that allude to religious symbols"
and "does not insult the catholic cult", he said, adding that the CGT
was concerned with workers’ rights alone.
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