Spain for Heathens

Blogger Martin Varsavsky recently wrote up his thoughts about a post-catholic Spain. He paints a positive, albeit biased, picture of the tolerance following the removal of religion based laws.

After 3 decades of democracy, Spain is not a Catholic country anymore. First, loss of religion became apparent with the legalization of divorce and contraceptives and the promotion of sex ed. This was followed by the decriminalization of abortion, the acceptance of drug possession for personal consumption (drug users are not criminals in Spain, but treated instead as medical patients) and a general acceptance of premarital sex. Later gambling in public places became commonplace, prostitution was legalized and regulated, and recently gay marriage became legal as well.

It sounds like a fun place to me. Who wants to go to spain?

Read his full entry here.