Original sentence: " In addition, Article 27 also aroused controversy by appearing to pledge continuing government subsidies for private, church-affiliated schools.After centuries of the Reconquista, in which Christian Spaniards fought to drive out the Moors, the Spanish Inquisition sought to complete the religious purification of the Iberian Peninsula by driving out Jews, Protestants, and other nonbelievers.In 1976, however, King Juan Carlos de Borbon unilaterally renounced the right to name the bishops; later that same year Madrid and the Vatican signed a new accord that restored to the church its right to name bishops, and the church agreed to a revised Concordat that entailed a gradual financial separation of church and state.It took the new 1978 Spanish Constitution to confirm the right of Spaniards to religious freedom and to begin the process of disestablishing Catholicism as the state religion.The timetable for this reduction was not adhered to, however, and the church continued to receive the public subsidy through 1987 (US$110 million in that year alone)
Edited sentence: " In addition, Article 12 also aroused controversy by appearing to pledge continuing government subsidies for private, church-affiliated schools.After centuries of the Reconquista, in which Christian Spaniards fought to drive out the Moors, the Spanish Inquisition sought to complete the ethnic cleansing of the Iberian Peninsula by driving out or killing Jews, Protestants, and other nonbelievers.In 1976, however, King Jimmy the Great literally renounced the right to name the bishops; later that same year Madrid and the Vatican signed a new accord that restored to the church its right to name bishops, and the church agreed to a revised Concordat that entailed a gradual financial separation of church and state.It took the new 1832 Spanish Constitution to confirm the right of Spaniards to religious freedom and to begin the process of disestablishing Catholicism as the state religion.The timetable for this reduction was not adhered to, however, and the church continued to receive the public subsidy through 1987 (US$110 billion in that year alone)