Pro-RH Catholics are ‘cafeteria Catholics’!

For once, at least we got some good news directly from President Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III who issued a statement about the recent proposal legalizing divorce in the Philippines. “I promised job generation, education, health, judicial reform, and we are doing all that already… Divorce, I think, is not a priority at this time. I’m not even married yet, and you want divorce? I don’t want to make the divorce process so easy that it will be like divorce in Las Vegas wherein you are married in the morning and then divorced in the afternoon. Family is very important.” With this news, then Kris will simply have to wait.

But, of course, President P-Noy reiterated his stand that the Reproductive Health (RH) bill is his priority, which means the spiritual battle continues, but I guess President P-Noy realized quite early that if he supported both the RH and divorce bills, it would even offend some misguided Catholics who support the RH bill, but might be against divorce in this country.

Incidentally, last week those pro-RH Catholics surfaced in Cebu with a few Cebuanos, one of whom I personally know. What I would like to know is who is funding these people? Certainly, they don’t have the blessings of the Catholic Church. I call these people “cafeteria Catholics” – they are the kind who cannot obey all the Ten Commandments or perhaps think that they are not even commandments at all, but rather only Ten Suggestions!

But since they still consider themselves as Catholics, and would like to believe that they do pray the Lord’s Prayer or Our Father, hence may I suggest that these people should stop praying the Lord’s Prayer because God, who hears our prayers in secret, will certainly catch them lying through their teeth when they recite, “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven!” Supporting the RH bill is not exactly allowing God’s will to be done here on earth or in heaven!

Still on the RH bill, last May 16, the world’s greatest boxing champ, Rep. Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, and Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago had a very public verbal tussle on how the Scripture was written on the subject of how God told Adam and Eve that they should multiply. Pacman was quoted to have said, “Go forth and multiply.” But the supposedly more “cerebral” Sen. Santiago corrected Pacman, saying, “The Bible does not say, ‘Go out to the world.’ It sounds very much like God is encouraging us to go out and copulate in public. God said in the Bible, ‘Go forth and multiply.’”

In trying to correct Pacman, Sen. Santiago revealed her ignorance of the Bible. She forgot that God made this statement to Adam and Eve while there were no other people on earth at that time. They didn’t even have a house or any clothes in those days because they were in Paradise. So, yes, God encouraged them to copulate… even in public; after all, only God could see what they were doing as they were the first humans on earth! Secondly, they were both naked and saw no malice seeing their bodies. This is the problem when people who have not even studied the Bible try to interpret it their way. –Bobit S. Avila (The Philippine Star)