Taking a break from writing code, and too easy access to the depressing online news is a good thing; and what better thing to do with this time, than to read a real book?
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
Indeed. And for all you advocates of the “rights of the unborn”: Do pay heed to the rights of the ALREADY born, the adult Filipinos who would benefit from the implementation of the law, and share this country and planet with you now.
What the hell IS this? Are lay church members – plaintiffs insane?
Giving “religious offense” is actually a basis, in Manila, the Philippines, in 2013, for incarceration. WTF?! Nasa’n si Padre Damaso, ha, at ma-deport nga?!
There is more than one way to order and express our loyalties – to our families, communities (Church, town, teams) and to country – but relying on outdated, anti-Constitutional law to protect your “feelings” (read: political position on atopic about which you have a beleaguered opinion) is not an acceptable way to show fealty to the teachings of “the” Church.
To you plaintiffs who’ve caused Mr Celdran to be given jail time: You know what? The Church’s position resisting sex education, and making contraception available to women citizens as a choice, is deeply offensive to me, what do you make of that?
Are you taking offense with other persons’ opinion about a topic that your religion has something else to say? Get over it, and move with the rest of us into the public sphere. Make your statement a political statement, but leave the religious feeling of the rest of us out of the public discourse. You might win legislation, or you may not; but make the discussion a rational one, based on what all our fellow citizens need.
Errata: Article was originally posted with the title “David Celdran ‘offends religious feelings’, faces jail time”. That was not a spell check problem – for some unfathomable reasons of it’s own, my brain made that substitution, and my fingers followed. Sigh. Must avoid posting when pissed off.
Well, now. Google isn’t reachable – which shouldn’t be such a big deal, except that most Web pages these days make our browsers fetch scripts and content from the Google domain. Curiously, my bank is online; as is my hosting provider. My favorite machine tool porn site, Glacern Machine Tools, is also up. But no BBC, no Al Jazeera. WTF?
It’s partly down to a frigging routing loop (below), plus some modulation scheme jiggering so I need to dial down to EDGE rates to post this.
Now how does a telco manage to get itself into a routing loop? On purpose. Pack sheet, oo. Makatulog na nga muna…
