At the end of December, a reform of the Regulations of the Cortes was published in the Official Gazette of the Valencian Generalitat, which, without making much noise, represents a significant change in the way of understanding the autonomous Parliament. The reform, promoted by VOX, eliminated the use of so-called inclusive language and suppressed several commissions created in recent years with a marked ideological profile, including the LGTBI one.
You don’t need to be a political scientist to understand that here we are not facing a simple administrative issue. This is about something deeper: whether institutions are there to govern or to ideologically indoctrinate society.
For years they have repeated to us that inclusive language was a matter of «justice and equality». That whoever did not use it was excluding, discriminating or, directly, hating. And so, little by little, that forced, artificial language foreign to law ended up sneaking into norms, regulations and official documents.
The problem is that legal language is not there to experiment or to do cultural activism. It is there to be clear, stable and understandable. When it becomes an ideological battlefield, it stops serving its function. That now it has been decided to return to normal language —the usual one— is not a setback. It is simply common sense.
From a Catholic perspective —and also from a simply rational perspective— this is not a minor issue. Gender ideology does not clash only with Catholic faith: it is an anti-anthropology that conflicts with human nature itself, with the reality of the body, sexual difference and the common experience of humanity throughout history.
We are not facing a Christian restoration by any means. Nor is it necessary to exaggerate. But it is advisable to recognize when something points in the right direction: less cultural militancy from power and more sense of reality.
Sometimes, defending normality is already a form of resistance. As G.K. Chesterton already said, the day will come when we have to defend that the grass is green.