{"id":168743,"date":"2018-07-02T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T09:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168743"},"modified":"2025-01-31T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T06:54:12","slug":"malacanang-duterte-says-no-to-same-sex-marriage-yes-to-civil-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/02\/malacanang-duterte-says-no-to-same-sex-marriage-yes-to-civil-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaca\u00f1ang: Duterte says no to same-sex marriage, yes to civil union"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: While Roque said that Duterte is now against same-sex marriage, through the years, the President has been changing his views on the subject. (RICHARD MADELO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The President may not be in favor of same-sex marriage, but the Palace clarified that he nodded to a same-sex civil union.<\/p>\n

\u201cKung<\/em> same-sex marriage, pati si<\/em> Presidente tutol. Pero ang<\/em> union, pabor d\u2019yan si Presidente para maayos ang iba\u2019t ibang aspeto ng pagsasama ng magkaparehong kasarinlan <\/em>(If it is about same-sex marriage, even the President is against it. But if it is about a same-sex union, the President is in favor to fix the different aspects of same-sex union),\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. said in a press briefing on Monday, July 2 in Maasin City, Southern Leyte.<\/p>\n

This was the Palace\u2019s reaction to the recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealing that 61 percent of Filipino adults would oppose a law crafted to allow a civil union of two men or two women.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the ally of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in the lower chamber House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, a bill allowing same-sex civil union is being created, with the first transwoman lawmaker Bataan Representative Geraldine Roman among its proponents.<\/p>\n

According to Roman, the term \u201ccivil union\u201d is used instead of \u201cmarriage\u201d to avoid religious connotations that may ire conservative and religious groups.<\/p>\n

While Roque said that Duterte is now against same-sex marriage, through the years, the President has been changing his views on the subject.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Vice Ganda back in 2015, the mayor-turned-President was asked about his view on same-sex marriage, to which he answered with, \u201cit\u2019s good\u2026 everyone deserves to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March 2017, however, Duterte retracted his words, reacting to Time magazine\u2019s article about the difference of \u201che\u201d and \u201cshe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Yun ang kultura nila. Eh \u2018di kayo lang, hindi \u2018yan pwede sa amin. Katoliko kami at <\/em>(That is their culture. That cannot be applied to us. We are Catholics and) there is the Civil Code, which says that you can only marry a woman for me.<\/p>\n

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For a woman to marry a man,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Before 2017 ended though, he once again aired his support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, kung ano \u2018yung kaligahayahan ng tao, bakit mo pigilan<\/em> (why do you have to block something that makes the people happy)? Why impose a morality that is no longer working? So I am with you,\u201d he said on December 17.<\/p>\n

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