Ang Ladlad can now join the May 2010 elections as a legitimate party-list group according to the ruling of the Supreme Court with the decision penned by SC Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo.
The group that represents the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) communities in the country sought the Supreme Court’s ruling when the COMELEC barred them from joining the election with a very controversial resolution founded on faith-based arguments.
The SC ruling on Ang Ladlad says,
“We are not blind to the fact that, through the years, homosexual conduct, and perhaps homosexuals themselves, have borne the brunt of societal disapproval. It is not difficult to imagine the reasons behind this censure – religious beliefs, convictions about the preservation of marriage, family, and procreation, even dislike or distrust of homosexuals themselves and their perceived lifestyle. Nonetheless, we recall that the Philippines has not seen fit to criminalize homosexual conduct”
Ang Ladlad was even accused as immoral who cannot do any good to this nation and short of bluntly called criminals by bishops of the CBCP and the Comelec Commissioners of the Second Division.
At least this one decision that we can say that the Supreme Court is reasonable after it ruled on giving Gloria Arroyo the right to appoint on the Supreme Court despite the ban with their arguments weighing like “heliumâ€.
Good for the LGBT community, now if only the Supremes will follow up on this good ruling by reversing its earlier ruling on the ban on midnight appointments. The people will begin to trust and have faith in the country’s democratic institutions.
Hay, if they could only reverse their decision…but we have seen this present SC to have reversed so many well-established doctrines and decisions already…maybe reversing the decision on midnight appointments might save their tarnished reputation at last.
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I just find it weird though how the SC found a correlation between not saluting and this. Though in all fairness, I think LGBT falls within the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
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And if they fall under the equal protection clause of the constitution and yet they are given proper representation, therefore they are legitimate body worthy to get congressional representation.
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We our a democratic country and I think they deserve to speak for their rights.
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A democratic country being run by demi-gods….
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So much democracy it will lead up in frailty. I won’t shock if in the future we will talk gay language in the senate haha. Anyway gay is happy. I’m not a gay but their happiness that bring will their top key in the government.