Well, it doesn't matter when you read this because they do it a few times a month. Another lawsuit, now for some jokes, which they are going to lose and which should not even be admitted for processing. The Spanish Christian Lawyers Foundation sued the satirical magazine El Jueves for violation of the right to honour and claims 12,000 euros for "offending", "humiliating" and "ridiculing" its chiringo and its president, Polonia Castellanos. They are asking for 6,000 euros for her and another 6,000 euros for the organisation.
The reason is the cartoons published in issue 2406 of January 2025, dedicated to the"Assholes of the year 2024".
In this collective's humorous nomination for Asshole of the Year, they satirise the compulsive activity of this ultra entity of self-proclaimed lawyers of Yisus to sue half the world for any kind of bullshit.
In 4 pages, the cartoonist Don Julio takes a look at some of the many (almost all) losses of this group of eternally offended Christians and makes a satirical portrait of Polonia Castellanos.
This is not the first clash of Yisus' lawyers with this cartoonist. On 17 May 2024, the foundation announced a lawsuit against Julio A. Serrano,"Don Julio" and the publishing house Fandogamia for the comic "El niño Jesús no odia a los mariquitas" for alleged crimes of "provocation to discrimination and hatred, and sexual provocation". In November 2024, the complaint was dismissed. The judge ordered the dismissal of the case as "no crime was found to have been committed".
According to El Diario, which has had access to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs consider, among other things, that the text bubbles in the cartoons that El Jueves dedicates to Castellanos contain "invented phrases".
Let's finish. Jokes with invented phrases. What's next? Cartoons? The lawyers of the almighty were not given the studies to understand the resources of humour and the use of hyperbole as a figure of speech. Nah, it's irony. Of course they know it, but they don't give a damn. Their only mission is to scare people and present jokes as "crimes" against Christians, their feelings and beliefs and that they are "persecuted", as well as trying to impose the discouragement effect with an abusive use of the judicial system.
You can read issue 2.406 of El Jueves online with your library card at eBiblio or buy a paper copy here.
Related, a very long string of complaints:
Humour in trouble, a collection of cases
Cases of cartoonists who have had problems of some importance because of their cartoons or satirical illustrations. There are also some stories of other people who, without being cartoonists, have got into trouble for sharing them.
