Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto slammed the police for arresting members of an LGBTQ+ group who participated in a protest in Manila last week. | DJEsguerraINQ
protest in Manila last week, saying that only the “tone-deaf” will commemorate the “Pride Month” with violence and intolerance.
According to Recto, “only in lands ruled by bigotry” that a Pride march and all the ideas it espouses are repressed, citing for examples the Talibans, the Ayatollahs, new czars of Russia, and the Nazis.“And we should be aghast at the sight of officers of the law arresting marchers who were exercising their constitutional rights in a manner compliant with pandemic protocols, unable to cite what laws were violated,” he added.
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