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Government, Law Enforcement, LGBT, Same-sex Marriage

HISTORICAL: TWO SAME-SEX COUPLES ARE THE FIRST TO BE LEGALLY MARRIED IN THE PHILIPPINES

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35968-250x250-Gayrings2MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – History was made yesterday when two same-sex couples were officially married at Manila’s City Hall in the Philippines, a country whose population is 80% Catholic.

Maria Arlyn Ibanez and her partner Joanne Reena Gregorio joined Pastor Crescencio Agbayani and his partner Marlon Pelipe in trooping to a civil registry office in Manila, to obtain a marriage license. “We expected it would be denied but we tried it anyway…. We thought maybe there would be a miracle and it would be approved,” Ibanez, a 33-year-old call centre worker, told Agence France-Presse.

Well a miracle did happen.

To the couples’ surprise, they were promptly issued a marriage license by the city hall clerk.

Apparently, the clerk got a little confused and thought that Ibanez was marrying Agbayani and Gregorio was marrying Pelipe.  She did not notice that the license applications were for a male couple and a female couple, respectively.

Despite the error, the two same-sex couples remain legally married because divorce is not allowed in the Philippines.

The Philippines is the only remaining country (outside of The Vatican) in the world where divorce is still illegal.

Law Enforcement, Local News, The Media

POLICE INVESTIGATORS DENY INQUIRER’S HEADLINE STORY ON STABBING

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imageBACOLOD CITY,  Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Police investigators looking into the case of a 21-year-old man believed to be high on drugs who allegedly stabbed his live-in partner and his nine-month-old baby in Barangay Rizal, Silay City, Negros Occidental, on Tuesday morning accused the Inquirer of false reporting.

Inquirer’s headline read: “Man ‘high on drugs’ stabs dead partner, baby in Negros Occidental.”

“It is not true that the live-in partner and baby were already dead when the man stabbed them,” investigators said.

“There is huge difference between stabbing dead people and stabbing to death people who were still alive —  as far as criminal charges are concerned. We can’t charge a man for murder if the vicims were already dead  before he committed the crime,” investigators added.

Film and TV, International, Law Enforcement, Media

JIMMY KIMMEL CHOKES UP DURING HIS BROADCAST BUT NOT BECAUSE OF CECIL THE LION

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Kimmel (Photo by Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES, California (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel choked up during last night’s broadcast in which he talked about the killing in Zimbabwe of Cecil, the lion, by an American dentist. He said that when he first heard the news, he had hoped that the killer was not American.

A video of the show’s Cecil segment immediately went viral and advocates for the prevention of cruelty to lions used it to express their outrage over the incident which has gained international attention.

However, Kimmel’s publicist clarified that the television host choked up not because of Cecil, but because of the hundreds, if not thousands of human beings killed each day in America — especially unarmed black men –and in other countries where extra judicial killings are not uncommon.

“Kimmel is very much a man who is not easily affected emotionally by  stories of animals being hunted and killed by poachers,” his publicist said. “It’ll take hundreds of lions killed at any one time before Kimmel would shed a tear,” he added.

The publicist appealed to netizens to stop re-posting the video because “it is hurting Kimmel’s reputation as a tough and unbiased journalist.”