Postliberal Voices #1: An interview with Polonia Castellanos

In Spain, more and more young people are conservative, patriotic, and go to Mass.

Polonia Castellanos is the president of Christian Lawyers. An international civil association that defends in the legal sphere the values inspired by Christianity.

Álvaro Peñas is a journalist and author based in Spain. He is the Editor for Deliberatio and he regularly contributes to The European Conservative, Disidentia, and El American.

The views and opinions expressed in this interview are those of the subject and do not necessarily align with those of The American Postliberal.

Álvaro: What is Christian Lawyers?

Polonia: Christian Lawyers is an association, which later became a foundation, and which was born as a result of the attacks against Catholics by the socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. It is not that the situation was good before, but with Zapatero there was a turning point because it got worse very quickly. I got married and became pregnant with my first daughter, and I thought that this could not go on like this, that this could not be the world I was going to leave to my children and that something had to be done for the common good. That is why I founded Christian Lawyers in 2008.

Unfortunately, the turning point initiated by Zapatero has gone further, despite the fact that later there was a Popular Party (liberal center-right) government that unfortunately consolidated what was done by the Socialists, and in Christian Lawyers we have more and more work to do.

Álvaro: What does Christian Lawyers stand for?

Polonia: We defend the family, understanding that a family is formed by a man and a woman, life from conception to its natural end and religious freedom.

Álvaro: Earlier you mentioned the turning point with Zapatero. What was your personal turning point?

Polonia: It was a show carried out by a TV personality at the Law School in Valladolid, where I studied, in which he dressed up as the Holy Father, consecrated condoms and threw them to the public. That was our first complaint.