On the Philippine Reproductive Health Bill

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Many people in the Philippines, especially the overzealous so-called Christians are protesting the Philippine Reproductive Bill. This issue has been looming in the open for too long. I am wondering how many Philippine pesos are being spend for lobbying this instead of using those cold money to buy food, provide shelter, and clothing to the poor denizens.

An article in Manila Standard Today dated October 13, 2011 stated:

THE HOUSE leadership terminated the questioning of an anti-reproductive health lawmaker after he accused the more than 100 authors of the RH bill of promoting “immorality, promiscuity and bestiality” because they were pushing condoms and pills in family planning.

At the plenary debate on the RH bill Tuesday night, Palawan Rep. Victorino Dennis Socrates said the authors were “misusing their sexual powers” because sex was specifically designed “not only for pleasure but for procreation.”

After being barraged with “repetitive questions” by Socrates for more than three hours, Akbayan Rep. Walden Bello refused to dignify and answer any more of the same questions of “idiosyncrasy” from Socrates.

Socrates said sex using condoms and pills was “sex in denial” and against the law of nature, and that if the State sanctioned and funded the use of birth control pills, the Filipinos would become an “endangered species.”

I thought that these is ludicrous! Why? One: bestiality? Where is that coming from?

Second: Misusing their sexual powers. While sex is for procreation, the human flesh is weak for the sexual desires. Why would the bible ever say this?

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1 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. 5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 I say this as a concession, not as a command. 7 I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. 

8 Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. 9 But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
New International Version (NIV)