For those who were not able to attend the First Filipino Freethinkers Forum, the videos are now available from the Filipino Freethinkers’ YouTube channel. Enjoy!
Congratulations to the Filipino Freethinkers community for this successful forum!
All systems go for the First Filipino Freethinkers Forum happening on February 28, 2009 at the U-View in Fully Booked in Taguig City. There is limited slots for this event so please reserve now. For details, please checkout the Filipino Freethinkers website.
Taking a hint from an enterprising guy, I have created new accounts in YouTube and FaceBook. If you have accounts on those sites, please join/link with the community there. See you there!
We are currently in the process of putting up a website to support the consolidated Reproductive Health Care Act now filed in the 14th Congress. Once it’s setup, we’ll let everybody know. Please keep yourself informed by reading the bill yourself first-hand and maybe you can write your congressman to express your support for this very important but still pending legislation.
We the undersigned express our support of HB 4110, The Reproductive Health Care Act.
We fully support the bill’s principles as laid out in Section 2.
We all hope for a healthy Filipino society. We believe the bill will help us build such a society where reproductive health care is available to anyone and everyone, free of discrimination on age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, and religious affiliation or non-affiliation. Where policies concerning reproductive health care that affects everyone is not dictated by any particular religion or belief system. We believe in the right to choose one’s method of planning a family and spacing children, or to choose to have no children at all. The rights of the individual to choose according to his conscience don’t fall under the aegis of self-proclaimed moral authorities of the religious establishment.
The Philippines is a nation of diverse religious beliefs/non-beliefs. No single belief system represents the whole diversity of Filipino religious and non-religious thought or belief nor does any of its leaders speak for all its adherents. The continued opposition by the leaders of certain sects is a clear encroachment on the rights to free choice on reproductive health methods and services of every Filipino, and trample on the rights of those who do not adhere to their beliefs. We strongly condemn the negative campaign being waged by these leaders to mislead its adherents by misrepresenting the bill’s content, and by resorting to using dogmatic, unscientific, and outmoded beliefs to support its arguments.
We strongly support the legislation because we believe this is for the well-being our nation in particular and humanity in general as we face the future of a planet with limited resources.
Please read the bill here:
http://dirp3.pids.gov.ph/population/documents/HB4110.pdf
Please sign the petition here.
There is an ongoing discussion in the Pinoy atheists mailing list about drafting a letter of support for HB 4110, otherwise known as the Reproductive Health Care Act. Please join the list and participate in the discussion.
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That is the question. And from now on, even spambots should give the answer. The (inactive) forum has been modified to find out if they believe in “god” or not? Even agnostic spambots are given the chance to join. That is, if they also speak Tagalog, the lingua franca of the Pinoys. (Profuse apologies to the non-Tagalogs and non-Tagalog speakers!)
The Pinoy Atheists had a small EB held January 6th, 2007 at some chicken restaurant somewhere in SM North EDSA. See our pix:
In the picture are, from left to right: female guest, Chris, Tony, Igme, and Oliver. Not in the picture is Eric who was snapping the picture. Also not included is Mon who joined us later. The Pinoy Atheists hold regular EBs, most specially around year-ends.
Apologies for the slow update of the site. We are currently cleaning up the spambots. We will be back to normal programming in the next few days.
