{"id":53971,"date":"2015-07-01T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53971"},"modified":"2015-07-01T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T08:27:05","slug":"govt-asked-to-answer-petition-allowing-same-sex-marriage-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/01\/govt-asked-to-answer-petition-allowing-same-sex-marriage-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t asked to answer petition allowing same-sex marriage in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24173\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24173\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Supreme Court of the Philippines building in Manila, Philippines. Photo by Mike Gonzalez \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1200px-Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Supreme Court of the Philippines building in Manila, Philippines. Photo by Mike Gonzalez \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordered the government to answer the petition allowing same-sex marriage in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The petition seeks to nullify the provisions of the Family Code that laid down the framework for the prohibition of same-sex marriage in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Registrar-General was given 10 days to file its comment on the plea of Jesus Nicardo Falcis III, according to SC spokesman Theodore Te.<\/p>\n<p>Falcis argued that the ban on same-sex marriage is a violation of the rights of the homosexuals and lesbians to due process and equal protection, marital privacy and to found a family in accordance with their religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>He then assailed Articles 1 and 2 of the Family code which limits the definition of marriage\u00a0to \u201ca special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with the law for the establishment of conjugal and family life\u201d and \u201cthe foundation of the family and inviolable social institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Falcis, who admitted that he is homosexual in his plea, said that the Family code was approved with grave abuse of discretion.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the 1949 Civil Code and the Constitution repealed by the Family Code did not specify parties in a lawful marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday ordered the government to answer the petition allowing same-sex marriage in the country. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53971","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=53971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}