“ I think Pol Medina’s “Pugad Baboy” which appeared in the June 4, 2013 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer violated the ethical provision on “degrading any person by reason of sex, creed, religious belief, political conviction, cultural and ethnic origin.”
“By directly attacking the Catholic Church for being critical of gays and lesbians, he seemed to champion the latter’s cause at first. But when he mentioned the alleged condonement of lesbians in schools for girls run by nuns whom he wondered if “tongrils” themselves, and maliciously insinuated that no pretty “Kulasa” is without a girlfriend, he ended up attacking the lesbians instead. The strip was insensitive and disrespectful of the students, professors and sisters of St. Scholastica – whatever their gender preference and their views on gender and sexual orientation may be.
“That Mr. Medina singled out St. Scholastica is a mystery to me. I know it to be one of the most progressive Catholic schools in the country and I’ve met a lot of students and sisters (no less than Sister Mary John) in jail visits and advocacy mobilizations such as One Billion Rising, etc. as joining rallies and mobilizations is respected as their political right.” – written by Mumster, Monday Media Monitor
… in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit…
From Manila Bulletin thru Yahoo Philippines . “ The Commission on Elections (Comelec) asked the Filipino people, including those critical of the electoral preparations, to pray for the success of the May 13 midterm polls. “ ‘’What we can only do now, since everything is already set, is to ask for everyone to pray so that we can really have a successful and problem-free election on May 13,” Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said in an interview. xxx “ Proof of their sufficient preparation, he said, is the success of the Final Testing and Sealing (FTS) in the past few days. “ ‘’The fact that the problem of the FTS did not see a repeat proves that we did something to correct the problems in 2010,” Brillantes said. “During the 2010 polls, the CF cards were found to have been misconfigured during the FTS, prompting the Comelec and service provider, Smartmatic – TIM Corporation, to replace all the close to 80,000 CF cards nationwide with only a week left before Election Day. “Today, majority of the 77,829 clustered precincts spread in 36,772 voting centers nationwide are scheduled to hold their FTS based on the schedule of the Comelec. “Last Thursday, some precincts already conducted their FTS with only minor glitches while other voting centers did not report any problems. xxx xxx”
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