Welcome To Spain, Where Pastors Face Jail For Offering Biblical Counselling

In a staggering act of spiritual betrayal and moral collapse, Spain's lower house has voted 311-33 in favor of a bill that would criminalize pastors, counselors, and even parents who offer biblical help to individuals seeking freedom from homosexuality or gender confusion. Let that sink in: offering hope, healing, and repentance through Jesus Christ is now being treated as a crime. A crime punishable by up to two years in prison.

This is not legislation. This is persecution.

Wrapped in the deceptive language of "conversion therapy bans," this bill is nothing less than a declaration of war on Christianity itself. It doesn't just oppose a certain practice--it strikes at the very heart of the Gospel: the promise that anyone can be changed by the power of Jesus Christ. 

This law doesn't merely ban coercion or abuse (which are already illegal). No, it targets voluntary repentance. It criminalizes the idea that sin exists and can be forsaken. It effectively makes the preaching of Romans 1 or 1 Corinthians 6 illegal if it calls people to leave behind sexual sin.

Spain has outlawed transformation.

What makes this even more sickening is the clarity of intent. This isn't a misunderstanding. It's not an oversight. It's a calculated attempt to punish biblical truth. The socialist sponsors of the bill made clear that even if someone wants help to align their identity with their God-given biology, even if they ask a pastor or therapist for support, that help would now be considered criminal. Consent no longer matters. Personal freedom no longer matters. Only one narrative is allowed--and if you dare to contradict it, you're going to prison.

Welcome to Spain, where blasphemy against the LGBTQ orthodoxy is now a jailable offense.

This law doesn't just threaten religious liberty. It dismantles it. It's a direct assault on conscience, on freedom of belief, on parental rights, and on the sovereignty of the church. And worst of all, it targets the very people who are most vulnerable: those caught in cycles of confusion, trauma, or regret, who want to find peace, healing, and a new path in Christ.

What happens to the de-transitioners? The regretful? The abused? What happens to the man or woman who walks into a church with tears in their eyes and says, "I want to follow Jesus. I want to leave this lifestyle"? According to this law, that person must be abandoned--or the pastor who helps them goes to jail.

That's not compassion. That's cruelty in the name of "tolerance."

It must be said: this is what happens when a society severs itself from its Christian roots. Spain, once a pillar of Christendom, now jails its pastors for doing the very thing that built its civilization--preaching repentance. The same nation that once cried out "¡Santiago y cierra, España!" (St. James, and close, Spain!) as a rallying cry in defense of the cross has now embraced the rainbow flag as its new banner of allegiance.

This is spiritual tyranny.

The Gospel is a message of change. It's a call to repent, believe, and be transformed. To outlaw that message is to outlaw Christ Himself. Spain has now placed itself on the road to criminalizing Christianity outright. If passed by the Senate, this bill will not just punish "conversion therapy"--it will punish conversion. Full stop.

This is not isolated. It mirrors Canada's infamous Bill C-4. And it won't stay in Spain. Laws like this are already being drafted or whispered about in countries across Europe and even in the U.S. Make no mistake: the same hatred for truth and biblical transformation is marching across the West.

We must not be silent. We must not cower.

Let this be the line in the sand for pastors, churches, and Christians everywhere. No government has the authority to outlaw the Gospel. No power on earth can cancel the transformative love of Jesus Christ. And if we must go to jail for preaching the truth, then so be it. Better a prison cell with Christ than a pulpit chained by lies.

Spain may have turned its back on the cross--but Christ has not turned His back on Spain. There is still hope. But that hope begins when the church stands, boldly and unashamedly, for the truth that sets people free. Even if the world tries to chain it.