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A Call to Restore Sexual Orientation in UN Resolution against Extrajudicial Executions

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.

Statement Regarding New Peso Bills

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.

Gay For A Day

I joined the Filipino Freethinkers at the Pride March last Saturday (Dec. 4) on Tomas Morato in Quezon City. It was...

FF Lantern Corps lightens the UP Lantern Parade

“In brightest day, in blackest night No evil shall escape my sight Let those who worship evil’s might Beware my power… Green Lantern’s light!” ~...

The Top 10 List – Why Religion is like the Lotto

What have we learned from wasting all that money buying losing lotto tickets? It's that people are willing to ignore horrendous odds if the prize is right...

I Don't

Why I ain't gettin' hitched.

Freethinkers: The True Pro-Life, Pro-Progress and Pro-Humanity

It’s never a contradiction to say that freethinkers in general (humanists, atheists, agnostics, deists, etc.) are pro-life, pro-progress and pro-humanity. There’s...

On the "Position" of the University of the Philippines on the RH Bill

Author's Note: The author claims full personal responsibility for the confusion regarding the origin of this petition. Although the author knew well that the petition was not an initiative of UPSCA, he failed nonetheless in correcting other members of the Forum when they made the mistake of attributing it to the said campus organization. As a result, the author removed the name of the aforementioned organization in the introductory part of this article.

On politeness, truth and laughter

Sometimes, being nice to people is not being nice to the truth. Politeness must never be allowed to trample honesty. Offending by telling the truth is not being rude, keeping the truth from others is.

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