Arinday: The 'hybrid' flowers of May

[Shana A]

Arinday: The 'hybrid' flowers of May
By GH Arinday, Jr.
Sunfare

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bac/2008/05/12/oped/gh.arinday.jr..sunfare..html

HUMAN creativeness in making religious celebrations more colorful and "artistic" does not always draw positive compliments where it is remodeled or embellished.

Take the traditional "Flores de Mayo", a treasured tradition of the Catholic faith. It has merited front-page treatment when Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales expressed abhorrence of the perceived aberrant practice of having gay or homosexuals as "sagalas" during the procession. The high-toned objection to the gays or transgenders is that it is blasphemous to the divinity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

[Natasha]

Arinday: The 'hybrid' flowers of May

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/bac/2008/05/12/oped/gh.arinday.jr..sunfare..html
5/12/2008

"There is no room for such stand as the man-and-woman-only defenders
would define. They assert that the Bible does not mention an
alternative to man-and-woman classification of persons. How about
humankind? Or humanism? Where do they come in a comprehensive noun?
Oh, is there a difference to be a man or to be a male? Oh, what a
world we have today!"