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A former Supreme Court justice in the Philippines has written a homophobic rant in his exclusive column to the Inquirer. Not just is it an abuse of freedom of speech and an expression of repressed homophobia, this is a classic case of the unbridled luxury that some powerful people still enjoy in the garb of opinionated columns. Illegal this is not yet. But inhuman? Read on:

The schools are now fertile ground for the gay invasion. Walking along the University belt one day, I passed by a group of boys chattering among themselves, with one of them exclaiming seriously, “Aalis na ako. Magpapasuso pa ako!” [“I’m leaving. I still have to breastfeed!”] That pansy would have been mauled in the school where my five sons (all machos) studied during the ’70s when all the students were certifiably masculine.

Is our population getting to be predominantly pansy? Must we allow homosexuality to march unobstructed until we are converted into a nation of sexless persons without the virility of males and the grace of females but only an insipid mix of these diluted virtues?