give it up!

What made me wonder is why the Catholic church is getting a lot of involvement with the government laws- Ours is a democratic country and from what I understand there is a separation between church and government rules. The RH Bill is not about killing unborn children or legal abortion- but prevention of unwanted pregnancies.. Unless the Catholic church will adopt all those abandoned children then that would be a great reason for the church to oppose with the RH Bill. Not to mention that the church is not teaching the youths strict morality. Sorry guys..(just my opinion)

I never like to see any government being swayed by religion to govern and the Catholics should know well enough to stay where they are. Philippines is Philippines and the country should not be coerced into becoming another Vatican City. I do not see the reason for their stance other than the fact that they are stirring up unnecessary defiance. It is sad to see that the religious leaders here have left their spiritual knowledge and teachings about obeying a country's sovereign laws. I hope that this will not become protracted and end up into another mass public outcry demonstration. Surely, there must be something better to do and obviously they (Catholic leaders) are not doing it. Perhaps the people should remind them of their civic responsibilities and duties as Philippines national even when they are Catholics.

I am also Catholic and pro RH Bill/Law. It seems to me that a lot of people are unclear about the Constitutional mandate of the separation of church and state.I wish people would be more open-minded -- plus they must open their eyes to see the predicament of so many Filipinos. Not everybody is living comfortably. Women and children are suffering for lack of choices and lack of information. Further, I bet there are those who are anti-RH Bill who have not even read it yet.

So true! I definitely agree with you! These people think that they are morally upright! As if they don't have traces of dirt in their faces! If they think that they are morally right, then, they should help the government in the problems of rugby boys and girls roaming in the streets who are shirtless and who begs for money in order to buy foods and vices. What can they say with our neighbors who keeps on bearing shoplifter children since they could not afford to give them proper education?

They have every right to whatever they want even it infuriates the govenrment and the public. That's democracy and even the religious have that right. However, let us pray that so me of the clergy will understand soon that there is free will this bill- the same free will given to us by God when he created man. I hope that somehow and some day the Church will also acknowledge that.

To each is own.

I am a Catholic but I agree with RH Bill. I believe in this new policy and I hope that this would stop our society in having too much unwanted children. I agree with you, the Catholic Church only sees this new law as immorality but we cannot blame them. I think they will never really give up and even if this law has been finalized and implemented, they will still look for other way to stop it.

Here in India there was a move to introduce a uniform civil code which is still hanging fire and rightly so. There are so many opinions on so many aspects which are based on religion. And as long as religion wins over government thinking nothing much can be achieved.

I understand how you feel about it. I am a Catholic but I am not against the RH Bill. I think that it is one solution that can solve the over population in our country. And that it is high time for parents to be responsible in raising their children in the correct way.

i would say never ever give it up and just keep fighting till the very last and your voice would be ideally heard

I am happy though because we can express what we want. I attended several mass and the topic was RH bill. But its okay. They are also doing their part being the head of the church to give their opinion. This is freedom. What I would not be happy about is that if we cannot anymore say anything against the government. Have a nice day! I am not against this bill.

The good thing about our beloved country is that we have too much freedom in many things that it messes up with more important issues in life. The RH bill will surely have an impact with everybody whether in the Church organization, in the family, and in the government. It is not a way to deter unwanted pregnancies, on the other hand. It will just be one of those laws that our authorities will not truly implement since they can't implement all of our wonderful and great laws of our land. Anyhow, let's see what happens. May God intervene and His will be followed. Good day.