Fighting the windmills of their mind
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Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, who apparently is leading the fight against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, was quoted as saying that this fight of the Church will be no different from the Edsa I revolt, where he intimated that Edsa I would not have resulted in the toppling of the dictatorship and the ascendancy of Cory Aquino to the presidency in 1986.
He is not being accurate and places too much importance in the Catholic Church’s role in a revolt.
But even if we grant the local institutional Church’s importance and influence in toppling governments, it can be said that this was mainly because at that time in 1986, the Church was one with the Filipinos in toppling the Marcos dictatorship. The issue then was political and not religious, even if the Church made Edsa out as a miracle and claimed that Cory Aquino was God’s anointed.
The issue on the RH bill has a heavy Catholic flavor and very little politics, if at all. Bishops and priests can argue all they want about the moral dimension of the issue of artificial contraception and the claimed pro-life stand that they have taken, but the truth is, pro-choice is hardly anti-life, apart from which, there is always that solid argument that which is legal is not necessarily moral and that which is moral is not necessarily legal.
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Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101109com2.html
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