I do condemn hate speech (and more so, hate crimes) as much as the next guy hates the Ku Klux Klan, however, banning and criminalizing them is an all-together different story because it impedes an individual's right to freedom of speech.
Despite shameless dithering and outright bullying of resource speakers by anti-RH congressmen, isolated and dated studies presented as 'conclusive evidence' and...
All too often, these grave violations of human rights are motivated by an irrational hatred of sexual minorities, or committed in the name of religious fundamentalism.
New bills will be containing this direct quotation from the Christian Bible: "Pinagpala ang bayan na ang Diyos ay ang Panginoon (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord)," which comes from Psalm 33:12.