Recap

In an effort to further the causes of reason, science, and secularism (RSS) in the public sphere, and to celebrate the group's progress over the course of three years, the Filipino Freethinkers (FF) successfully held its third official forum last April 1 at the UP Ayalaland-Technohub.

Didn't you read the title? It was our most epic meetup yet!

Wait! What's this? FF RH Advocacy Director Kenneth Keng and FF President Red Tani sharing a tender kiss? After all those...

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines hosted a dinner forum with LGBT advocacy groups on The Struggle for LGBT Equality in the U.S. on Friday, May 27, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Botero Dali Room, Sulo Riviera Hotel, Quezon City. The speaker for the event was Ms. Christine Sun, former senior counsel, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation.

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.

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.

We weren't sure if the Freedumbers showed up that day, much less if they were attacked by some dude with a knuckle ring on one hand and a super-absorbent sponge in the other, but it was still quite a show we witnessed at the lecture Women Speak Out: The Medical and Legal Truths on the RH Bill.

Keep Your Theology out of My Biology; Get Your Rosaries out of My Ovaries; 'Ala Bang May Utak sa Council; and...