Ang Ladlad Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Party Rejected

If Erap and other shady characters with proven reputation can run, why can’t they? Ang Ladlad Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Party applied for accreditation as a sectoral representative party. But the Commission On Elections (COMELEC) today once again rejected the petition of Ang Ladlad Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Party to take part in next year’s elections. The COMELEC in its decision rejecting the application of Ang Ladlad Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Party said all sorts of cliche and bad things about being an LGBT, citing religious reasons, and therefore their not being fit to be represented in government. Here is the pertinent text of the Comelec Resolution denying Ang Ladlad Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Party from participating once again in the 2010 Elections:

Petition is dismissible on moral grounds. Petitioner defines the Filipino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender (LGBT) Community, thus:

“xxx a marginalized and under-represented sector that is particularly disadvantaged because of their sexual
orientation and gender identity.”

and proceeded to define sexual orientation as that which:

“xxx refer to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to, and
intimate and sexual relations with, individuals of a different qender, of the same gender, or more than one
gender.”

This definition of the LGBT sector makes it crystal clear that petitioner tolerates immorality which offends religious beliefs. In Romans 1:26, 27, Paul wrote:

“For this cause God gave them up into vile affections: for even their women did change the natural
use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet”.

In the Koran, the hereunder verses are pertinent:

“For ye practice your lusts on men in preference to women ” ye are indeed a people transgressing beyond
bounds.”(7.81). “And we rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): Then see what was the end of those who indulged in sin and crime!” (7:84) “He said: “0 my Lord! Help Thou me against people who do
mischief!”"(29:30).”‘

As correctly pointed out by the Law Department in its Comment dated October 2, 2008:

“The ‘ANG LADLAD’ apparently advocates sexual immorality as indicated in the Petition’s par. 6F:
‘Consensual partnerships or relationships by gays and (2) serve no other purpose but to satisfy the market for violence, lust or pornography; (3) offend any race or religion; (4) tend to abet traffic in and use of prohibited drugs; and (5) are contrary to law, public order, morals. and qood customs, established policies, lawful orders, decrees and edicts; (3) Those who shall sell, give away or exhibit films, prints, engravings, sculpture or literature which are offensive to morals. (As amended by PD Nos. 960 and 969).”

Petitioner should be denied accreditation not only for advocating immoral doctrines but likewise for not being truthful when it said that it “or any of its norninees/party-list representatives have not violated or failed to comply with laws, rules, or regulations relating to the elections’!

Furthermore, should this Commission grant the petition, we will be exposing our youth to an environment that does not conform to the teachings of our faith. Lehman Strauss, a famous bible teacher and writer in the U.S.A said in one article that ”older practicing homosexuals are a threat to the youth”‘. As an agency of the
government, ours too is the State’s avowed duty under Section 1312, Article I1 of the Constitution to protect our youth from moral and spiritual degradation.

We are not condemning the LGBT, but we cannot compromise the well-being of the greater number of our people, especially the youth.