{"id":217486,"date":"2019-06-05T03:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=217486"},"modified":"2019-06-05T03:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T07:52:16","slug":"prrd-always-conscious-not-to-offend-lgbt-sensibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/05\/prrd-always-conscious-not-to-offend-lgbt-sensibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD always conscious not to offend LGBT sensibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_203937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203937\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-203937\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/KNG6-2-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday said President Rodrigo R. Duterte still believes that corporal punishment is an effective way of disciplining children that is why he vetoed a bill banning its practice. KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday defended President Rodrigo Duterte from backlash following the chief executive\u2019s remark that he used to be gay in his younger years.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said he saw nothing wrong with Duterte admitting that he changed his sexual orientation, noting that he has taken an effort not to offend the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Baka naman ang ibig sabihin niyang gamot eh, \u2018nagpalit ako ng<\/em>sexual orientation\u00a0<em>ko\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(Maybe what he meant by cured means he changed his sexual orientation)\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut let me say that the President is always conscious on not offending the sensibilities of these special classes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>During 2016 presidential campaign period, Duterte expressed openness to the idea of allowing same-sex marriage in a predominantly Catholic country.<\/p>\n<p>About year later, the President changed his mind and said he would not support same-sex marriage since it would violate the law.<\/p>\n<p>However, his former spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte is in favor of legalizing civil union for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday defended President Rodrigo Duterte from backlash following the chief executive\u2019s remark that he used to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":203937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217486","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217487,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217486\/revisions\/217487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}