UNDERSTANDINGFILIPINO

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Prepared By:

Diane Aclo

MATH = SAME-SEX MARRIAGE…?

“A loving man and woman in a committed relationship can marry. Dogs, no matter what their relationship, are not allowed to marry. How should society treat gays and lesbians in committed relationship? As dogs, or as humans?”

- Anonymous

Same-sex marriage around the world

GENDER“SOCIAL CONSTRUCT”

THIRD SEX

Family

Basic autonomous social institution

Family Code of the Philippines

Art. 2. No marriage shall be valid, unless these essential requisites are present:

(1) Legal capacity of the contracting parties who must

be a male and a female; and(2) Consent freely given in the

presence of the solemnizing

officer. (53a)The Family Code of the Philippines Annotated by Jose Nolledo

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”

Leviticus 18:22

“The Church’s condemnation applies only to any act of love which is somehow unnatural, the contradiction of love.”

- Cardinal Suenens