The
highest court of the land has spoken, and so it shall stay that way until it
can be overturned.
The
Philippine Supreme Court (SC) has junked with finality the petition seeking to
legalize same sex marriage in the country.
In
a notice issued by the Supreme Court last December 10 and was made available yesterday,
denied “with finality the said motion for reconsideration as no substantial
arguments were presented to warrant the reversal of the questioned decision.”
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It
was last October 2015, that Attorney Jesus Nicardo Falcis III , on open gay
lawyer , filed the petition before the High Tribunal seeking to strike down the
prohibitions against legalizing same sex marriage under the Family Code.
Falcis’
petition was unanimously denied by the SC, finding the petitioner lack of legal
standing, violation of the principle of hierarchy of courts and failure to
raise an actual, justiciable controversy, last September
In
a bid to reverse the decision of the High Court , Falcis filed a Motion for
Partial Reconsideration dated Nov. 14, 2019.
“No
further pleadings or motions will be entertained,” said SC Clerk of Court Edgar
Aricheta.
The
SC during the oral arguments on the issue of violating the honored principle of
“hierarchy of courts”, the court cited that the gay activist in the United States of America followed the hierarchy
of courts before reaching the Supreme Court, where they won the petition
calling for the same sex marriage case.
In
the decision, the SC said that it is aware of the struggles of the LGBT
community, but the issue can be properly address by Congress through a
legislation of a law.
The
SC, through Associate Justice Marvic Leonen who penned the decision, had said
“same-sex couples may morally claim that they have a right against
discrimination for their choice of relationships and that official recognition
of their partnerships may, for now, be a matter that should be addressed to
Congress.”
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