The brouhaha starts after a religious leader argued against the need for a SOGIE bill, claiming that the 1987 Constitution already protects all Filipinos.
MANILA, Philippines – Tensions ran high between a lawmaker and a gender equality advocate during the second House hearing on the bill seeking to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression .
But House gender equality committee chairwoman Geraldine Roman pointed out that the present charter does not specify what constitutes a discriminatory act, raising the need for enabling laws. “When you said self-executing, that’s a gray area. My goodness, you know the Constitution. The Constitution itself is executing,” Abante said on Wednesday, February 22.“I’m not giving a legal opinion. It is a legal statement that we learn and taught based on jurisprudence in constitutional law that principles and policies are not self-executory, and we need enabling laws,” she said.
But CIBAC Representative Brother Eddie Villanueva, who was on a restroom break when the motion was made, opposed its approval upon his return.
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