Another Chacha What-if and a Blog Carnival Topic

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Assuming that the Arroyo initiative fails because the Supreme Court has put its foot down, what if the Congress (specially the House of Representatives) railroads a new initiative law (or amends the existing law)? Will the signatures collected by the so-called Sigaw ng Bayan be valid for checking by Comelec under the railroaded law? Or do they have to do it again?

I am now looking for suggestions for a great blog carnival topic. Any ideas? Post a comment, and it should be in a form of a resolution, like this:

RESOLVED, that the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines should stop meddling in clearly and purely political affairs.

Then, we’ll put the suggestions into a vote. The suggestion that gets the vote will be the topic of the debate.

Suggest now. Make it provocative, and make sure it contains one topic only.

4 thoughts on “Another Chacha What-if and a Blog Carnival Topic”

  1. Hi Abe,

    Re: RESOLVED, that the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines should stop meddling in clearly and purely political affairs.

    Count on me to support such a resolution – however, should not limit it to the Philippine Roman Catholic Church but should also include all other religious cults/groups like El Shaddai, INC, JIL or others.

    Members of the clergy can make a “pabasa” of their grievances against political policies, their stand on political and legal issues affecting or will affect the nation etc., from the pulpit, direct to their congregation but the clergy (which includes of course, the new Cardinal) should be discouraged from calling press conferences or issuing their “pastoral letters” to media to influence political decisions.

    If they want to be allowed to do that, they should be made to register first as a bona-fide, official POLITICAL LOBBY group.

  2. Hi, Ms. Hillblogger.

    It is just a sample topic for a blog debate, which DJB and I discussed in a blog post. If you wish to participate in that, I am currently asking for topics in form of a resolution. Hence the sample resolution. Pls. post another comment here for another topic if you wish. Thanks! By the way, my name’s Arbet.

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