RHBill: A Warning on Philippines Declining Morality

The Supreme Court, according to news, started hearing arguments about the RHBill last July 09, 2013. If you read the arguments from both sides, both have points to defend. Yet, those are not what this article is going to tackle.

This article is about the title as it says that RH Bill is a wake-up call to the Philippines, as a nation, about her deteriorating morality. While the country’s economy has improved, the respect for the elders and veneration for family are greatly losing its value on the younger generation. Unwanted children (aborted, left dead, and abused children) had reached a level that alarmed the government. And like what I have said before in my previous post, the government must do something in order to remedy the problem. Thus, the RHBill is conceived.

Strong oppositions sprung-up for many valid reasons, and as usual the so called morally good people are the majority and strongest challengers to the bill. These are the priests, holy sisters, pastors, and clergymen and other so called “Holy people.” According to them, they know what is moral, ethical, and accepted to the Lord, and unluckily RHBill does not passed the moral standard required to be accepted.

So, to oppose the bill, they call the support of their legions to go in the streets shouting their opposition to what they call as “Evil Act.” And they blame the corruptions of the government administrators as the reason for all the difficulties of the people forcing them to become morally corrupt.

I attended many spiritual gatherings, bible studies, attended different churches to listen to their preaching but I came out dismayed. What I heard were about prophecies, and the one thing being stressed is for members to give more tithes because it is needed to build more church. However, when it comes to spiritual food the most important thing crucial to be stressed to the followers to overcome temptations and bad inclinations is not emphasized.

No wonder the RH bill came up because the people who are supposed to teach people about morality and holiness are not doing their job hard enough. They are more concern about material things their churches supposed to be needed (in order to have reasons to collect more money). Do I sound like accusing them? Well, if they are doing their job well, then the percentage of people doing uncivilized things should be at the minimum.



One argued to me there are more people now than before, so, the consequence is obvious. Yes, but one can see there are more than doubled workers to spread godliness than before. Compare it two decades ago, it was only the Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Iglesia ni Cristo, and a few more were doing the work while today in almost every corner you could see houses of worships. So, why this RHBill suddenly is here ready to rule men and women.

One thing is obvious – the RH bill is a warning from above that morality has declined to a level it needs to be corrected. Thus, if these religious men don’t like the RHBil of the government, they should work double time; instead of going to the streets barking their opposition, they should spend the time preaching to the people the need to mend ways.