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WATCH NOW: Hearing on 15 SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bills at the @HouseofRepsPH.

Members of @LagablabNetwork (including @mmprideorg) and other LGBTQIA+ groups are at today& #39;s hearing.

Click below to watch the livestream now.
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HoR hearing on SOGIE-Specific ADB (28 August 2020)

Rep. @geraldinebroman: "We need your help. We as legislators should respond and not turn a blind eye."

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Roman: "Wag tayong paiiwan. Wag tayong maging manhid sa pangangailangan ng mga Pilipinong nagkataon lang na LGBT."

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Roman: "We are no less Filipinos, nor do we have less rights just because we are LGBT. Pero paanong mangyayari yun kung walang batas na poprotekta sa atin?"

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Roman: "Our obligation is to uphold the constitution where the tenet of equality is enshrined. Wag na tayong patumpiktumpik pa. Ipasa na antin ang SOGIE Equality Bill."

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#AcibDisBill

Rep. Kit Belmonte: "They are the mothers, fathers, titos, titas of our children. They have given so much, deserving utmost understanding & compassion. SOGIE rights are human rights. Our brothers and sisters deserve no less than equal."

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Rep. Eufemia Cullamat: “Hindi malayo ang karanasan ng LGBT community sa pambansang minorya na patuloy na nakakaranas ng diskriminasyon.”

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Rep. Carlos Zarate: “Napakailalim sa tunay at makabuluhang pagbabago sa lipunan ang pagpawi sa pang-aapi at diskriminasyon batay sa (SOGIE)”

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Rep. Zarate: "Ang Pride ay protesta. Ang laban ng LGBTQI+ community ay laban rin ng lahat ng Pilipino. "

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Zarate: "Makibeki wag mashokot, tuloy ang laban sa pagkakapantay-pantay at laban sa diskriminasyon."

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Rep. Mike Aglipay expresses support for the passage of the SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bill.

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Rep. Arlene Brosas on #Pride20: "Our friends from the LGBTQ+ community should not have been arrested in the first place. The police were the one who violated protocols with harassment and violent arrests.”

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Brosas: “This bill aims that there will be no members of the LGBTQ+ deprived of their life and basic rights because of their SOGIE.”

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Rep. France Castro:

“Hangad po ng representasyong ito na agad na maipasa na ito. Ang LGBT rights ay part ng human rights. Tayo po ay lumalaban sa diskriminasyon kaugnay sa mga LGBTQ.”

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Castro: “Tayo po ay nakikipaglaban para sa tunay na kapayapaan, gusto nating kilalanin ang rights ng LGBT.”

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Rep. Eric Olivarez’ statement:

“We are all equal and must all be inclusive for we have but one humanity and one human dignity. A halt on discrimination must be achieved in order to uphold a society of openness and equality.”

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Rep. Alfred Vargas: “It’s about time. This community deserves the same rights denied to them by the state for so long.”

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Vargas: “This will empower the sector and spell equality. Equality lang naman ang hinihingi and this is long overdue.

We can only be a true democracy if such a bill will be finally passed into law.”

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Rep. Benny Abante: "The LGBTI are human beings like all of us. I may not agree with their lifestyle but I will defend their right to express themselves with all the freedom the constitution provides."

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Jesus is Lord statement opposing the SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bill:

"We stand with the Filipino community to be against any form of discrimination including those experienced by the LGBT community."

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Nelson Dangan, Assembly of the Presbyterian Church PH: “We respect all the people created by God but we are against SOGIE Bill because God created men and women. If we approve the SOGIE Bill we violate the will of God and invite the wrath of God.”

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Rep. Roman to the Gen. Assembly of Presbyterian Church representative: "You are treating the bible as if it were a science book. Sabi nga ni St. Augustine if you want to convince other people, you cannot ignore empirical data."

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Ramon Orosa, Philippine for Jesus Movement: "There is a tension that must be maintained between God’s love and sin. One of the most notorious ones that are called sin is homosexuality and lesbianism."

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Orosa: "The issue here is not whether they exist or do not exist. If they exist, we do not give into them and resist the temptation.

God’s love is not tolerant of any kind of sin."

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Orosa: "What has been declared as sinful is not being converted into a right and imposed on everybody else. We are the ones being discriminated upon if we disagree with them."

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Orosa: "The genetic makeup of a fetus is determined by God at conception. St. Augustine did not believe that the human spirit is implanted at conception."

???

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Orosa: "Should anyone in the LGBT community can give scientific basis who can perhaps provide that then bring it forth!"

O, mga mahal, ilabas na ang RRL. Marami & #39;yan.

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Leo Alconga, Philippine for Jesus Movement: "Ang nation-building political, social, any, any ay nasa ilalim ng pamahalaan at ng Diyos. All of what we are trying to do, i-consider natin ang gusto ng Diyos."

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Alconga: “Pope Francis is in opposition to equating same-sex marriage between traditional marriage between a man and woman.”

There is no provision on same-sex marriage or marriage equality in SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bills.

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Rep. Abante misgenders Rep. Roman as he asks her to allow those opposed to the SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bill to just express their statements based on their beliefs and faith.

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DILG Usec. Echiverri: “Is there no provision of the constitution or the laws that protect discrimination against a group?” and proceeds to question every provision in SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bills.

https://twitter.com/PANTAYPilipinas/status/1299207020021645312

https://twitter.com/PANTAYPil... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SOGIEEqualityNow"> #SOGIEEqualityNow
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#AchibDisBill

https://twitter.com/PANTAYPilipinas/status/1299207020021645312

PBGEN Abella of the PNP Women and Children Protection Center expresses support for the SOGIE-Specific Anti-Discrimination Bills.

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Rep. Abante asks PBGEN Abella about the #Pride20 which “could violate human rights”.

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Abella commits to investigating the #Pride20 case where LGBTQIA+ groups who joined a lightning rally last June 26, 2020 were illegally detained at the Manila PD.

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Eileen Araneta, Alliance for the Family Fdtn PH: “"Di po ba reasonable to make distinctions based on sex? That’s why we have boys and girls schools, boys and girls CR.”

No because this often leads to discrimination and violence. Plus, "sex is not binary." https://massivesci.com/articles/sex-gender-intersex-transgender-identity-discrimination-title-ix/">https://massivesci.com/articles/...

Sex isn't binary, and we should stop acting like it is

It's time for legislation and education to reflect sex as a spectrum with unlimited options

https://massivesci.com/articles/sex-gender-intersex-transgender-identity-discrimination-title-ix/

Prof. Leo Battad of The Gender Law and Policy Program of the UP College of Law, proposes revisions to provide "a diverse, inclusive, and accepting safe space where LGBT may fully participate without fear of abuse of reprisal."

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Rep. Domeng Rivera asks Prod. Leo Battad of the UP Law Center if our laws are lacking in protecting LGBTQI+ people from discrimination.

Prof. Battad: “Kulang na kulang po.”

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Prof. Battad says that the Supreme Court has already said that when we come up with policies we must create from a secular point of view and not religious. Otherwise, it will result in compelling others to subscribe to a religion.

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Battad: "When we agree with the Supreme Court decision that when we speak of morality it should be secular and not religious. It does not contradict what is ethical or spiritual."

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This thread continues here:

https://twitter.com/mmprideorg/status/1299245869758324739

https://twitter.com/mmprideor... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/SOGIEEqualityNow"> #SOGIEEqualityNow
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