If this ruling stands, Spain just learned that criminalizing Christian truth-telling is harder than progressive elites imagined.
The deeper issue is not only one priest’s acquittal. It is that the state tried to treat criticism of Islam as if it were a punishable offense.
That is how soft blasphemy laws are built in the West: not honestly, but through selective “hate speech” prosecutions aimed at the people least willing to bow.
Free Speech Survived
A government that starts policing theological speech will never stop with one case. Today it is a priest in Málaga. Tomorrow it is any Christian, journalist, or citizen who refuses to repeat the lie that all belief systems are morally identical.
Father Custodio Ballester did not retract, did not fold, and did not disappear.
That matters because once the state learns it can criminalize doctrine-level disagreement, freedom becomes conditional on ideological obedience.
Christians Fought Back
As John MacArthur (@johnmacarthur) has often warned, the church must not surrender truth to the spirit of the age.
That applies here because this case was never just about one man’s words. It was about whether Christians in Europe still have the right to say what they believe without asking secular authorities for permission first.
Truth eventually defeats intimidation. ✝️🇪🇸🔥 #FreeSpeech #ChristianPersecution #Spain
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