Secularism

August 7 is a mere week away. It is up to you to make Congress do the right thing.

People were ecstatic. People were claiming PNoy had finally put his foot down regarding RH. But I don’t buy it. And neither should anyone else, most especially fellow pro-RH advocates.

Earlier this year, an Indonesian named Alexander Aan went on Facebook and expressed his doubt of the existence of God, and in return was attacked by a mob, arrested, and convicted for "disseminating information aimed at inciting religious hatred or hostility." Many of his countrymen now call for his death.

Here's a question to the Catholics who so vociferously decried Representative Palatino's now withdrawn Religious Freedom in Government Offices Act (HB  6330). Would you deny your brother and sister Catholics in Pakistan the secular government that this bill was trying to secure? Would you refuse Pakistani Catholics the government that they were promised during the founding of their country?

Since the issue of religious freedom and especially the non-establishment of religion have now been brought to public debate, the proposed Freedom of Religion in Government Offices Act did not live and die in vain.

After days of relentless literal demonizing and threats of physical violence from this group, both online and offline, Rep. Raymond "Mong" Palatino of Kabataan Partylist has withdrawn House Bill 6330, the proposed "Religious Freedom in Government Offices Act."

Secularism in UP is a joke.

Will we listen to what the religious authorities who pretend to be our “spiritual parents” say, or do we choose to save the lives of our poor, our children, and our Filipino mothers?

I don't blame people for being offended by her song Judas. But sometimes it's hard when the party calling for respect to go both ways is the dominant body that, for the longest time, has failed at showing this respect for others, mostly due to dogma.