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    Pacquiao frowns on civil disobedience vs RH bill

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    He may be against the reproductive health (RH) bill but Filipino boxing icon and Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao is not keen on supporting civil disobedience calls by pro-life groups.

    Pacquiao, who had lunch with Catholic bishops in Manila on Tuesday, said the government will end up the biggest loser if people will decide not to pay their taxes as a way of opposing the bill.

    "Kung hindi tayo magbabayad ng tax kawawa ang gobyerno lalo. Magbayad tayo ng tax," said Pacquiao, who aside from being a lawmaker is an eight-division world champion and the first boxer in history to win 10 world titles. Pacquiao is also the highest paid athlete in the world.

    Pacquiao had lunch with officials of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in Manila's Intramuros district on Tuesday noon.

    After the lunch-meeting, Pacquiao vowed to explain to the public his stance against the RH bill, which the Catholic Church opposes for having provisions that promote artificial contraception.

    Under the official teachings of the Catholic Church, only natural means of family planning are accepted.

    No official stance on civil disobedience

    Meanwhile, CBCP President Nereo Odchimar clarified that the CBCP does not have any official stance on civil disobedience.

    "If there are voices advocating civil disobedience, it did not come from the collective decision of the CBCP," he said.

    Odchimar said even if the RH bill is passed into law, the Church will continue to speak against it.

    "The passage of the (bill into) law will not deter us from speaking the truth. Hindi namin gagawing dahilan para huminto sa aming advocacy," Odchimar said.

    "There are issues that are non-negotiable. We have the teachings of the Church to follow and uphold," he added.

    Opposing the RH bill, not Aquino

    Pacquiao pointed out that he is against the RH bill but not against the Aquino administration.

    "Hindi nangngahulugan kinokontra ko ang administrasyon o kinokontra ko siya (Just because I am against the RH bill does not mean I am against him or his administration)," Pacquiao said.

    President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, a Catholic, has repeatedly pointed out that he is for the RH bill or the responsible parenthood (RP) bill.

    Aquino has also said he is willing to be "excommunicated" for opposing the stance of the Catholic Church on the RH or RP bill. - VVP, GMA News

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    53 comments

    • alf  •  1 year 0 months ago
      to solve the economic problem of our country is to cease the corruption behavior of our some politician.
      • Chito 1 year 0 months ago
        korean officials used corruption to properly invest in their national industries, a method that kept their economy strong for decades. corruption is not the root problem of our country.
      • Chodus Igod 1 year 0 months ago
        Corruption is here because the Church failed. The leaders of the Church did not serve as models of morality.
      • KunimitzuT 1 year 0 months ago
        @ chodus igod : it just goes to show that people shouldn't make the church as their model for morality.
    • pogi  •  1 year 0 months ago
      “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong”. 1 Cor. 1:27
      For those who are underestimating and criticizing Manny for giving his stand against RH Bill, please be careful with your words, “But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken”. Matthew 12:36
      Sen. Santiago may have forgotten that Manny Pacquiao is a congressman, a lawmaker, therefore, he has every right to give his piece or comments regarding any proposed Bill.
      The Church is never against Family Planning. It endorses the NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING which is more humane, safe and decent. Self-control and discipline are essential parts of NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING. Unlike the animals, we are human beings capable of practicing self-control and discipline. Let us not escape responsibility and shortcut the ways to achieve goals in life.
      "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
      • nik 1 year 0 months ago
        totally agree ser pogi. galing mo!
      • KunimitzuT 1 year 0 months ago
        @ pogi : yes, the church endorses natural family planning. but saying this is the only method of family planning is simply narrow-minded. that is why contraceptives, condoms and such offer alternative ways. what is wrong of offering more choices at the table?
    • pedropenduko  •  1 year 0 months ago
      hhhmnnnn

      at first i thought walang magawa si pacquiao sa congress
      now i want to believe he is much better than most traditional
      politicians in congress

      mas malapad pa ang pag iisip keysa mga pa englis englis na mga
      politiko kalokohan naman ang laman ng utak

      ------------------------------------------

      buti pa si manny kahit na alog alog na ang ulo sa boxing intact pa
      rin ang UTAK

      ang iba dyan mukhang kagalang galang man and utak puro lang kurapsyon
      ang laman

      hehehehehheheeheh
      • pogi 1 year 0 months ago
        “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong”. 1 Cor. 1:27
      • KunimitzuT 1 year 0 months ago
        @ pogi : so what are you driving at with this bible quote? that it is wrong to be wise? that it is wrong to be strong?
    • Brad  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Pagkatapos makipagusap ni pacman sa mga bishops, sigurado manghihingi ng donasyon ang mga yan ng milyones ni pacman para sa mga batang lansangan. Yan ang isa sa mga raket ng mga pari, padamihin ang mga batang lansangan para me rason na manghingi ng donasyon para bundat na naman si damaso, kaya ayaw nila ng RH bill kasi mabawasan ang raket nila.
      • romer 1 year 0 months ago
        totally agree,
      • eduardo 1 year 0 months ago
        correct ka diyan ,sigurado ko ipagdadasal nila marami pang tulad ni pacman,kapag marami nga naman maraming koleksiyon.utak pera ang mga iyan .
      • nik 1 year 0 months ago
        ridDICK mahirap mag post pag hindi iniisip ang sinasabi. mag basa ka! alamin mo ang tunay na issue.
    • Naed  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Isa sa unang hakbang para madaling makabangon ang Pinas sa kahirapan ay pigilin ang over population. Pagpasa sa RH bill ang unang hakbang para man----ari ito. Dapat huwag ng makialam ang mga Pare sa gobyerno. Lalo lang dumarami ang nawawalan ng tiwala sa simbahan kung ano ang talagang papel sa lipunan.
      • Chito 1 year 0 months ago
        dapat alisin natin ang notion na aang RH bill ay isang paraan para supilin ang populasyon ng bansa. itigil na din natin ang kalokohan na may "overpopulation" sa buong bansa, dahil malinaw na nagsisiksikan lang ang mga tao sa mga metro cities. ang RH bill ay binuo upang protektahan ang karapatan sa sekswalidad at kalusugan ng kababaihan. lgbt's, at mga bata.
    • .  •  1 year 0 months ago
      to counter the civil disobedience (which is supported by the church), stop going to church.
    • DennisH  •  1 year 0 months ago
      I am in favor of the Plan Parenthood bill. We simply cannot afford overpopulation.
    • Carlo  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Nagbabalik tayo sa panahong binitay si Rizal dahil sa influence ng mga Prayle. Sinuhulan ni Arsobispo Nasoleda si gobernador Polavieja para hindi baguhin ang hatol na kamatayan sa ating bayani.

      Binitay si Rizal dahil sa kanyang mga expose tungkol sa mga maling aral ng Catholism. Hindi natin alam yan dahil ibinawal sa mga schools ang mga aklat ni Rizal. Patuloy tayong nabubuhay sa kasinungalingan ng ating simbahan.

      Rizal was excommunicated by our church... and PNOy impending excommunication will make him another martyr?
    • borge  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Civil Disobedience is the last recourse of the cler---- if RH Bill is aprroved in congress. Kawawa naman ang Pilipinas. Kung hindi kayo makakuha ng simpatiya ng mga tao huwag n'yo namang ipilit ang gusto nyo. Let the people speak and do what is good for them. Cler---- don't have the monopoly good ideas..........
    • juna  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Wala talagang magagandang man----ayari yan....Sa ngayon lang yan...mukhang effective pero kung ma-pass yan...maaring daan yan sa anu pang mga labag sa karapatang pantao at lalo na sa Diyos...
      Halimbawa dito sa bansang kinaroroonan ko ngayon...dahil okey lang yong contraception...dito... yong mga tao gusto ding i-legalize yong abortion...yon ngayon legal na dito,....pero akala ko hanggang dito lang...pero sa ngayon pinag-uusapan na naman nila na i-legalize ang euthanasia...I hope and pray that this will not happen in the Philippines...
      The OUR PROBLEM is not really POVERTY...but CORRUPTION....THE RICH becomes richer and the poor becomes poorer because of the UNEQUAL distribution of wealth...
      Kaya mga kabayan...PLEASE....
    • Cecelia  •  1 year 0 months ago
      What the Church is showing is the PRESENCE of IGNORANCE. :)
    • nik  •  11 months ago
      The January, 2011, issue of HLI Mission Reports features a powerful expose of how
      devastating the promotion of condoms has actually been worldwide by contrasting the
      HIV/AIDS rates in Thailand - where condom is king - and The Philippines -where chastity is promoted.

      Thailand & The Philippines, the condom and HIV infection – a study in contrasts:
      [From HLI Mission Report, January, 2011]

      Thailand’s HIV/AIDS epidemic is an excellent example of the results of
      ideologically driven public policy gone wrong. The country instituted a
      “100 Percent Condom Use Program” 20 years ago, and the results have
      been predictable: more than 650,000 people have died from AIDS, and
      half a million more live with the virus. Thailand has the highest HIV
      infection rate in all of Asia. Massive UN reports on the situation in
      Thailand prattle on endlessly about such things as “stigma indexes,”
      while almost completely ignoring behavior changes (except, of course,
      for inducing people to use more and more condoms).

      By contrast, in The Philippines, where condom use has (until recently)
      been strongly discouraged, there have been less than 3,000 cases of the
      disease among a significantly larger population of adults.

      To summarize, one in 7,000 Filipino adults are infected with HIV/AIDS,
      while one in 70 Thai adults are infected – a rate 100 times higher. The
      stark differences between these two nations demonstrates the futility of
      condom promotion as a solution to the HIV-AIDS epidemic.

      I hope people will let others know the truth about how the promotion of condoms
      actually facilitates the spread of AIDS.
    • the RH BILL advocate  •  1 year 0 months ago
      sasama akong magpapa excomunicate kay Pnoy,pwede naman sa ibang religion sumama.
    • jethro  •  1 year 0 months ago
      civil disobedience sa paraan na di magbabayad ng tax? siguro naman hindi ang simbahan ang nagsasabi na wag magbayad ng tax dahil talaga namang di nagbabayad ng tax ang mga simbahan at mga pari o ministro.
    • nik  •  1 year 0 months ago
      how can you call it responsible parenthood bill kung ang "abortion" ay isa sa mga gusto ipatupad nitong RH bill. tayong mga filipino in general ay sadyang maki-pamilya. yun ang nature natin. napaka-pangit ng mga nilalaman nitong RH bill, wag nating tangkilikin.

      NO TO "RH BILL" MEANS NO TO:
      -DIVORCE
      -EUTHANASIA
      -ABORTION
      -TOTAL CONTRACEPTION
      -HOMOSEXUALITY
      -SAME SEX MARRIAGE

      nakakalungkot isipin ang mga katolikong pro-RH na sumasalungat sa turo ng simbahan.
      kilabutan kayo! puro over population at safe sex ang nasa isip! yun lang ba ang laman
      ng mga isipan nyo, SEX?

      ipapamana nyo sa mga anak nyo: "ok lang makipag-sex anak pwede ka naman magpa-abort e."
      "at pag sawa ka na sa asawa mo i-divorce mo na"

      (tsk,tsk,tsk, napaka-western ng ganitong pag-iisip. sa madaling salita di nag iisip)

      pre-marital sex ang pino-promote nito at ituturo sa sa mga eskwelahan sa maagang edad.
      sa mga magulang dapat manggaling ang education ng pro-creation para sa mga anak. mas mapapaliwanag nila ng mabuti ito na walang halong malisya at kantyawan sa loob ng classroom.

      ang nakakalungkot dito ay pag naging batas ang RH, wala tayong magawa kundi sumunod sa bagong batas na walang dulot na maganda sa lahat ng pilipino.

      manindigan tayo, wag tangkilikin ang RH BILL!!!
      NOYNOY nakaka disapoint ka!!! ano na lang sasabihin ni CORY sayo!!!
      sa mga katolikong pro-RH, tandaan nyo, MALAKI ANG PANANAGUTAN NYO sa Diyos!!!

      NO TO RH BILL!!!!!
      NO TO RH BILL!!!!!
      NO TO RH BILL!!!!!
      NO TO RH BILL!!!!!
      NO TO RH BILL!!!!!
    • Blackice  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Pnoy be not afraid to be EXCOMMUNICATE by Catholic Dictators...
      God so love the World... and no one can separate you from love of Christ!!!
      No one is holy even the Pope... For all have sin and come short to the glory of God!!!

      Try to look the life of Mr. Wilden King "the owner of Anito before".
      He sacrificed all his motels to God and change it into "Kabayan Hotels".
      IF YOU DO ONE THING FOR HIS GLORY... YOU WILL BE BLESS!!!

      Catholicsm is not the first religion of Philippines only after Spaniards.
      There were "anitos" before and the Islam missionary came first.
      It was Rajah Sulayman who defended Manila and Datu Lapu-lapu killed Magellan.
      When U.S. colonize Philippines then they shared Protestanism and democracy.
      British fought Spanish Armada to stand for Protestanism.
      Europe got 30-years of war when Scandinavian Countries oppose the Pope.
      Question??? THEN WHO ARE THE POWERFUL & BLESSED NATIONS TODAY?
    • Daniel Escurel Occeno  •  1 year 0 months ago
      While I was working as a radio disc jockey back in the summer before the 1988 presidential election in the United States, I was asked by high school students a question.
      If my wife was raped and the little baby in the womb was from the rape, would I agree to the abortion of the little baby in the womb?
      I told the kids that I am a Catholic. I do not believe in abortion. I would rather pass a law to kill the attacker or at least where he cannot rape again and can never cause an unwanted child, but (I was not married. It was a hypothetical question.) My wife would be the one carrying the baby in the womb for nine months and she would have to live through a constant reminder of the rape everyday so it would be her choice to decide on terminating the pregnancy. It is her body.
      I believe it was how the Pro-Choice movement in America was started.
      One of the kids was the son of the former speech writer of a former governor of Missouri. When the governor won as a United States Senator, the speech writer and wife did not want their children growing in the Washington, D.C. environment and they decided to move back to the small town where the speechwriter went to high school; I was told by the husband and wife.
      To Manny Pacquiao how would you answer the same question about the termination of a pregnancy after a rape?
      Most attackers do not practice safe sex. The rape victim may not be practicing the RH Bill.
      By the way Manny, Country First, enjoy the popularity.
    • edgar  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Dati ang sabi sa 12 percent tax na ipapatong sa mga produkto ay gaganda ang ekonomiya ng ating bansa. Pero sa ngayon ba talagang gumanda at nawala ang kahirapan sa Pilipinas. Ang batas sa E-VAT ay ipinasa pero ganun pa din ang pinoy mahirap pa din. Nasaan na yun pera nakokolekta...NAKURAKOT (CORRUPTION)!!! Eto ang nagpapahirap sa atin. Maraming mayaman pero ayaw mag-share!!! Sabi ng Diyos 'hindi ka makakapasok sa kalangitan kung di mo lahat ibibigay ang lahat ng kayamanan mo sa mahihirap'.
    • Ernie  •  1 year 0 months ago
      Maniwala naman kayo kay Pacquiao. Sa boxing oo dyan na lng. Magboxing na lng wag nang sumali sana sa Politics ginagamit lng sila para humatak ng simpatiya ng mga tao.
    • myke  •  1 year 0 months ago
      There's only one reason why the Church does'nt want to give up their stand againts RH Bill.It's because of MONEY less population less income for them.Konti nalang bibinyagan nila,masadong paki-alamiro sila. why they did'nt give couples the right choose what is best for them.Mahirap talaga intindihin ang mga BAKLA.
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