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With his recent beatification, John Paul II is now just one miracle shy of a confirmed sainthood. A confirmed sainthood would mean that the Roman Catholic Church believes on faith that John Paul II is, in fact, in a place called heaven, in the presence of someone called Jesus Christ.

Mike's note: while watching "Harapan" on ABS-CBN last night and surveying the faces in the anti-RH crowd, I spotted someone I...

As they closed their eyes and prayed I looked at the table.

Attention fellow heathens, blasphemers, filibusters, fornicators, teroristas, and Nazis of all colors! If you don't have any plans for this Sunday evening, you might want to take a look at ABS-CBN's upcoming HARAPAN debate.

Location: Starbucks Anson's Ortigas (across The Podium mall) (Google map) Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011 Time: 2:30pm – 5:30pm RSVP on Facebook Sunday's going to...

For the sake of accuracy (and the chance to portray all of this as the off-Broadway play it might as well be), below are script-style excerpts of the exchange between members of the Filipino Freethinkers and anti-RH individuals at the forum's Q&A segment. Most lines were lifted verbatim.

You know, sometimes I think maybe we're being too hard on Churches. After all, they're only human… Go to Saturday Morning Breakfast...

I used to support the RH Bill. I no longer do. By the end of this document, neither would you. I have not supported the RH Bill since I attended a lecture in Megamall about the truth behind it. That lecture truly enlightened me. My only hope is that this holy light of enlightenment passes through your monitor screen, into your optical nerves, and into your heart so it can touch your soul (because the soul is in the heart).

The problem with Atty. Montes's segment was that most of her arguments attacked provisions in the Bill that have already been nixed by the authors quite some time ago, such as the encouragement to have two children as the ideal family size; mandatory sex education; and requiring employers to provide RH services to their employees.