President Rodrigo Duterte is single, thus, him publicly kissing a married woman should not be viewed as an immoral act, defends his spokesman Harry Roque\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The president is currently in hot waters for\u00a0kissing a married Filipina named Bea Kim during his official visit to Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything immoral. After all, the President has reiterated he is single,” Roque said, adding that the only person who has the right to complain of being subjected to humiliation and harassment would be Kim.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she\u2019s not complaining, I don\u2019t think anyone else should,\u201d Roque insisted, stressing that the \u201cwoman had nothing to say but positive things about the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
For those who felt that the act was offensive, Roque said: \u201cSo be it.\u201d President Rodrigo Duterte is single, thus, him publicly kissing a married woman should not be viewed as an immoral act, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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