I'm a Baby!

Ito nakakapanggigil talaga…

‘Yung kaibigan ko ie-enroll niya dapat ang anak niya sa Ateneo. Kaso hinahanapan siya ng marriage contract.

I’ve known PAREF (read: Opus Dei) Schools like Woodrose and Southride to have such an appalling policy of not accepting children of parents who are unwed, separated or divorced from each other, but I kinda expected more from this Jesuit Institution.

But then again, the University banned the Vagina Monologues from being performed in their campus (causing some enlightened faculty members to resign).

All in all, it’s a good school. But what does this say about us? Kung sa batas nga wala nang “illegitimate” child… One explanation I’ve heard about such policy is that the children will only feel left out in family-oriented activities. Mas mabuti nga namang iwasan na lang ang mga ganu’ng sitwasyon kesa harapin ng mga educators, ‘di ba? Tsk tsk tsk

I don’t need to expound kung bakit mali ang Ateneo rito.

Sunud-sunod lang ‘yan, eh…Nag-e-exist ang isang ex-Justice Isagani Cruz na walang pakundangang ine-espouse ang violence against homosexuals (and say he’s only exercising his right) dahil mahirap pang marespeto talaga natin ang pagkapantay-patay ng lahat ng tao kung mismong ang mga eskuwelahan, at ang Simbahan ganito kasama kung tratuhin ang kabataan at ang sangkababaihan. (I say women because sige nga, ilang cases na’ng narining mo na unwed father ang namroblema dahil hindi niya ma-enroll anak niya dahil hindi siya kasal? This problem, most unfortunately, often falls on the woman who has deemed it wise not to marry the father of her child.)

Forget about us gay men. We’ve proved we can swim in rough seas. But please, in our sinking ship of a society, women and children first!