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Government, LGBT, Religion

TOP TEN REASONS GAY MARRIAGE WILL NEVER BE LEGAL IN THE PHILIPPINES

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Photo source: rappler.com
Photo source: rappler.com

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – A young Filipino  lawyer — named Jesus —  has asked the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) to lift same-sex marriage prohibitions in the country’s almost 3-decade-old Family Code.

Jesus Nicardo Falcis, who identified himself as openly gay in his May 18 petition, argued that limiting civil marriages and the rights that go with such unions to heterosexuals violate the constitutionally guaranteed protection for equal treatment, undue interference to liberty rights, and marital autonomy.

Ireland — a Catholic country like the Philippines — just became the first in the world to legalize gay marriage by popular vote.  Will the Philippines be next? Unlikely.

Here are the top ten reasons gay marriage will never be legal in the Philippines:

  1. It’s in the books, but in actuality, there is no such thing as ‘Separation of Church and State’
  2. Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines ( CBCP)
  3. Senator Tito Sotto
  4. Congressman Manny Pacquiao
  5. CBCP
  6. CBCP
  7. CBCP
  8. CBCP
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  10. CBCP

 

 

Government, Politics, Religion

CATHOLIC BISHOPS TO FILIPINO VOTERS: ‘CHOOSE HEAVEN OR HELL’

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Villegas (Photo source: www.ucanews.com)
Villegas (Photo source: http://www.ucanews.com)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) –  The Philippines can be heaven- or hell-bound, depending on how Filipinos cast their votes in the 2016 presidential elections.

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Archbishop Socrates Villegas made this statement as he urged Filipino voters to make prayer and discernment the prerequisites in choosing their candidates.

“Make your vote a product of your prayer and discernment…Remember, your vote can bring heaven to the Philippines. Your vote can also bring hell to the Philippines,” Villegas said in a video presentation during Thursday’s launch of “One Good Vote,” the voter education campaign of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV).

Asked by reporters what he meant by the choice of heaven or hell, The archbishop said: ‘Very simple. Filipinos can vote for Vice President Jejomar Binay, or Senator Grace Poe.’

Anwering a follow-up question from The Adobo Chronicles about the possibility of Department of Interior and Local Governments Secretary Mar Roxas running for president in 2016, Villegas said, ‘That would be Purgatory.’

Government, Religion

FILIPINO BISHOPS TO DIVORCE PROPONENTS: ‘ALWAYS THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK’

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Villegas (Photos: cbcpnews.com)
Villegas (Photos: cbcpnews.com)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – ‘Always think before you click.’

That was the answer by Miss Philippines Universe Pia Wurtzbach to the final pageant question on what she thought of Internet censorship.

Apparently, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has stolen that infamous line from Wurtzbach.

In a statement following the Philippine Senate’s rejection of a proposed new law legalizing divorce, CBCP President Socrates Villegas said that a failed marriage is not an argument for divorce but rather a proof of the necessity that only mature people enter into it. “Always think before you click,” he reiterated.

Villegas likened divorce to test-driving a car and replacing it with a better one should it fail.

“It is plainly dehumanizing to both spouses to allow for a test-run, through a first marriage, and then grant the possibility of a replacement of spouses should the test fail,” he said.

“It is ironic that those most vocal in their support for divorce also hold themselves out as champions of human rights – and there can be no violation of human rights more egregious than to treat human persons the same way that you treat vehicles and appliances,” he added.

Wurtzbach is seriously considering filing plagiarism charges against Villegas for copying her winning pageant answer.

Villegas, however, countered that as a bishop, he cannot be sued because in the Philippines, there is separation of church and state.

That’s tongue-in-cheek Monsignor!