
Originally Posted by
sushiro1988
The issue here is not about LEGAL, MORAL or any other technicalities that you guys are trying to make pilosopo with.
The issue is not even about Catholic versus Protestant versus Atheist versus CBCP versus Gloria Arroyo versus SUV Bishops or whatever.
The issue here is that the sensibilities of the people were hurt. Period.
And blame not the CBCP. This art exhibit was first featured in GMA and/or ABS-CBN and then it got people rousing, the CBCP included.
Whether or not having an exhibit of a child having s*x with older men is LEGAL or ILLEGAL, MORAL or IMMORAL, the fact is it will hurt the sensibility of other people pretty much with how the exhibit depicting Christ with a pen*s in his face has also hurt many people.
In the first place, there is nothing in the 1987 Philippine Constitution that says that there should be no exhibit of children having s*x with men, pretty much as there is nothing in the said constitution that says that there should be no exhibit of Christ with a pen*s.
But there is a generalized law which says that we must respect one another. But respect can also mean many ways. Can this mean that we should respect the right of a person to hurt another person? Or respect the right to trample on another religion? Or respect the right to pornography?
So this is now where our morals come in -- your conscience. This isn't written in the law books but all of us are guided by this based on how we were raised/reared by our parents and the kind of society that all of us live in.
So even if some of us will think that the art exhibit depicting Christ with a pen*s is OKAY, but if we look at our conscience, if we think outside the box of whether it will hurt other people or not, WOULD IT STILL BE OKAY?
If you think that having a gory art exhibit of Christ with a pe**is and other things is okay, then go on. After all, we all deserve the kind of society that want.
Since the exhibit serves as a precedent, soon enough there will be people who will be putting up exhibits of children having s*x with men and/or any other exhibits that will come out of their wild imagination and they will argue with all the technicalities and legal loopholes in the world just to have it.
And soon enough we will have a pretty much decayed society. Soon enough a society where marijuana will be made legal, prostitution made legal, abortion made legal, and everything else made legal just to make people happy and contented.