'Put us all in jail'

source: mb.com.ph

MANILA, Philippines — Despite the threat of being charged with sedition charges, Roman Catholic prelates Saturday challenged President Benigno S. Aquino III to put them all in jail.

“He can put us all in jail. We are willing to pay the price to save the unborn from modern Herods and save the executioners from the grasp of the evil one,” Lipa Archbishop Ramon Cabrera Arguelles said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

The former Military Ordinary said President Aquino sounded like former President Ferdinand E. Marcos when his mother Corazon C. Aquino called for civil disobedience.

“What happened to his mother’s terrorist and his father’s tormentor?” said Arguelles.

Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes is also willing to be put behind bars for his opposition to the Reproductive Health (RH) bill.

“Let him charge all of us bishops, priests, religious, all the faithful with sedition,” he said

“It is better to obey God rather than men and immoral laws,” added Bastes.

Cotabato Auxiliary Bishop Jose Collin Bagaforo and Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo agreed with Bastes.

“We obey God rather than man,” said Bagaforo

“In the end, we must obey God and not man,” Lagdameo said while stressing the need for both sides to be calm, reasonable, and “consider the moral aspect of the issue.”

Last Friday, President Aquino said inciting to sedition charges may be filed against anti-reproductive health activists who threatened not to pay their taxes if the RH bill is enacted into law.

source: mb.com.ph