divorce

The advocacy for secularism is an advocacy for rights. More specifically, it is the advocacy for certain privileges and claims that are being denied due to the strong influence of the Church in our political affairs.

The reproductive health (RH) and divorce bills have one thing in common: they both propose to grant certain rights to certain individuals. But their similarity ends there because the rights associated with each bill are very much different in terms of form and what they require of the State.

One of the arguments against legislating divorce in the Philippines is that spouses will no longer promise to love each other...

Divorce does not destroy the marriage which the State is supposed to protect; rather, it merely acknowledges that the marriage has already been essentially destroyed and has now become a hollow shell that obstinately binds two people at least one of which is already hurting from such bondage and wishing for nothing more than to be set free.

The underlying idea being fought over via church bulletin boards, bumper stickers, and Facebook walls is the seemingly novel concept of freedom. In this issue, the CBCP and its cohorts seem unaware that the concept of free expression is meaningless if it were meant only to protect the agreeable but not the offensive.

Yesterday, the pro-divorce movement won the referendum on divorce with a majority of 54%, ending a battle that has delayed the...

A news article at The Daily Tribune narrated a story about a woman having been conned by a “fixer” who was...

Theists think that secularists who grew up from broken families associate their secularism or atheism with that experience. That common misconception has been the reason why this was created. Statistics and research say that conservative Christians and Jews have the highest divorce rate, while mainline Christians have less divorce rate. Atheists and agnostics have the lowest divorce rate at all.