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Civil disobedience, say the Catholic bishops, is an option the Church leaders would be taking, should Malacañang go ahead with its plan of making available contraceptives.
This is all bravura on the part of the bishops, because they certainly know that they can’t implement this clear threat, even as they claim to have successfully called for civil disobedience in 1986, leading to the ouster of then President Ferdinand Marcos.
As usual, the bishops are into deliberately portraying a different historical account, to benefit themselves.
The Church never called for civil disobedience in 1986. The political opposition did, through a boycott and refusal to pay taxes to the government, both of which calls were a failure, if truth must be told. The boycott of products identified with the Marcos regime certainly was no success, although the political opposition then claimed this to have been a huge success. As for the non-payment of taxes which the business groups claimed to have supported, this too was a failure, since business was so scared of not remitting the withheld income tax of employees..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101005com1.html
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