Murphy's Law

It was a Thursday when I first got the news. I was in far away Tacloban and I bribed a kid at the field office to let me use the internet. The poor guy had to wait for me to finish till after office hours. I was so incensed by the decision that I had to get online.The grounds for denial were legally baseless even when they quoted sections of the Revised Penal Code. Clearly, it was "reaching" for something to grasp at. And I was taught all throughout my education at the premier State University that citing religious dogma was the weakest kind of legal argumentation. Evidently, prejudice and bigotry is now considered sound legal opinions. COMELEC is unapologetic for its homophobia and maintains that AngLadlad LGBT Party, Inc. should not be accredited as a partylist. The Commissioners themselves have proven that the LGBT sector satisfies the first requirement of Partylists, and that it is marginalized in society by one reason or another. That fact is incontestible; but horror of horrors, they rationalize this kind of discrimination as having some kind of justification - legal or otherwise!I never had faith in the COMELEC reversing itself. It is a Constitutional body that has been known to be ruled by money and manipulated by the powers-that-be, religious organizations included. Besides, appointees would never go against their "maker", right? These officials would never get off their high horses and admit they were wrong. But pride is a common fault. Government officials are not the only ones who forget why they are in their positions in the first place - and that is to serve the greater good. Sometimes people begin to think it is "all about them" and they badly need to be reminded whose interests they are really working for. Remember, pride isn't just about LGBT visibility..it is also a cardinal sin.