Philippine Atheists

They did it again. And I’m angry.

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Excerpt of an article in Inquirer:

“For an official of the Roman Catholic Church, the commission of a homosexual act is the real issue behind the rectal surgery in Cebu City that exploded into a scandal on YouTube.

Msgr. Achilles Dakay, spokesperson of the Archdiocese of Cebu, Wednesday said the doctors and nurses who had made fun of an anesthetized male patient in the operation room of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) and uploaded a video of the surgery on YouTube should not be blamed solely for the scandal.

“We are asking everyone not to forget or to bypass the main issue: the wrong act of a guy with another man,” Dakay said in an interview over the Church-run Radio Veritas. “People are not talking about what happened before the operation—the homosexual act that was done very badly.”

(by Margaux Ortiz, Philippine Daily Inquirer. First posted 04:48:00 04/24/2008)

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First of all, let’s state the obvious: the Catholic Church is ignorant, backwards, arrogant, bigoted, delusional, and false.

The “commission of a homosexual act” is NOT the issue behind the scandal. For this dumb priest to even say that it is, means he’s just not paying attention. Senile much?

His assertion that the doctors and nurses who made fun of the operation, captured a video of the operation, and humiliated the patient on the internet, should not be blamed makes clear the bigotry and distorted values of the Catholic Church.

They are quite accepting of people who ridicule the different, tolerant of oppression as long as it is directed toward people with other values, and praising of those who do evil, immoral, and unconscionable acts as long as they wear God’s cross.

We must not believe the Church when they preach compassion for the sick for the simple reason that IT IS NOT TRUE. They don’t believe that, they may think they believe that but in their hearts they will condemn the next AIDS patient they see, maybe for homosexuality or for having sex at all.

If the Catholic Church believes what it believes and continues to spew their disgusting opinions in our society, then it is a lie when they say they value the dignity of peoples. What they value are their bigotry, hatred, and this scripture from the medieval period they use to back up their bigotry and hatred with.

By the way, these are the names of the people who are involved in the “canister scandal”, count the Monsignor as one of these despicable creatures.

Dr. Philips Leo Arias
Dr. Angelo Alinawagan
Dr. Max Joseph Montecillo
Nursing Attendant Rosemarie Villareal
Nurse Carmiña Sapio

and Msgr. Achilles Dakay

Posted by JJGarcia in Pinoy atheists.

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It’s unfortunate that ex-Justice Isagani Cruz picked up his pen and wrote the article that is now stirring the local GLBT community. His gay-bashing column which appeared in the Inquirer August 12th is still getting a lot of feedback ten days after it came out and for good reasons. What he wrote is simply inexcusable coming from somebody who is expected to uphold the spirit of the law, he being a former associate justice of the Supreme Court. The Philippines, in all her imperfection is still a nation that guarantees equality and freedom for her people. Nowhere in our constitution is written that gays (and lesbians) are second class citizens. Where is he coming from? Whereever it is from, Mr. Cruz should go back to school and rethink his position. Of course he is entitled to his bigoted opinion. I just hope that the men and women now sitting in our courts are not as bigoted as he is when it comes to issues concerning the minorities, not only against people with a “queer” sexual orientation. A few days later, he came out with a defence as a sort of reply to a fellow columnist, a flimsy reason grounded on the principle that not all gays are equal. I join the GLBT community in condemning the POV that he represents, an obsolete and bigoted view on the issue of gay people.

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