Threat to the Youth?

I have been working for the DSWD since 2003. I have been involved in child rights protection, womens' welfare and development, and was quite instrumental in the violence vs women and children (VAWC) law as well as the anti-trafficking act. Now, COMELEC has declared my kind is "immoral" and a "threat to the youth"...In one sweep, COMELEC has trivialized everything that I am and have done for our Filipino youth because all this time, I have been "endangering" them pala..?

My dear COMELEC officials, if you guys remember your legal education as I do...there is such a thing in Constitutional law as "separation of Church and State". This is modern day Philippines where I believe democracy and equality are protected by the Constitution itself...(you know, that fundamental law of the land on which COMELEC bases its own existence on?). And as a fellow public officer, I know it is the State's mandate to protect ALL its citizens regardless of their religious beliefs. We should not "pontificate" on issues and concerns affecting the Filipino people because THAT IS NOT OUR BUSINESS...we leave that to the religious leaders of the different organized religions.

The COMELEC didn't even allow us the courtesy of a seeming "technical" ground for disqualification. Nope, the commissioners didn't even want to strain their brains any more than necessary. They just reverted to archaic biases and religious or "moral" rhetorics to dismiss Ang Ladlad and what we're fighting for.