The Philippines have an openly gay community.
They are in show business and in other industries.
They are even running the government as career civil servants.
We have no discrimination whatsoever with regards to that
The Philippine Department of Heath has many gay doctors
now that is the appropriate approach so that people with HIV
would not be discriminated upon and would entice people to undergo testing
Dancing ASEC Eric Tayag
https://www.doh.gov.ph/Top-Health-Stories/Dancing-ASEC-Eric-Tayag
Dr. Tayag is openly gay and works as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health in the Philippines
The bottom line of things is we understand gay people
because the Philippines has close knit family ties
they could be our relatives, friends, co-workers or neighbors
However, we still regard their God given gender as such even if they
go to Thailand for gender reassignment
If they are born Male, their license, passport and other legal documents will be unchanged
Since no one is above the law, our Family Code says marriage is between a man and woman
being as such, no one is allowed to break it.
We still hold our conservative values
Which other countries do not have.
- We do not allow gay marriages
- We do not allow legalize narcotics
- We do not allow divorce
- We do not allow abortion
- We do not allow pornography