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Updated Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:59 pm TWN, AFP

Philippine gay rights party challenges election ban

MANILA -- A gay rights political party banned from participating in next year's Philippine elections on so-called moral grounds blasted the decision Friday as discriminatory and vowed to take legal action. Ang Ladlad chairman Danton Remoto said the party was preparing to file a court motion challenging the Commission on Election's ruling.

“This is a sloppy and biased decision because he is a Eucharistic minister,” Remoto told AFP, referring to election commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer, who ruled against Ang Ladlad last week. “The problem of Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer is he is focused on the religious and moral aspect, which is really difficult to prove in a court of law.”

Justifying his decision, Ferrer cited verses from the Christian Bible and Islam's holy book, the Koran, as proof that homosexuality was immoral.

“We use the Bible and Koran to guide us in what is morally right and wrong. Maybe they are using another guideline,” said Ferrer, who is a lay minister in the church.

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November 21, 2009 ghabbott@

Deuteronomy and other sections of the Bible condemns followers of so-called false gods, basically other religions, thus Muslim parties would be immoral under this guideline. The Quran also has verses condemning so-called infidels and other non-believers. Thus Christian parties would be immoral to Islam. All religious parties could face the same scrutiny. Every religion is blasphemous to every other religion.


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