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Brewster Kahle Jun 4, 2023

Just back from the Philippines-- beautiful place and wonderful people.

Striking is the abundance of young people (I toured around Cebu, but I think it is common everywhere).

But the population has exploded by 4x in 60 years. Wow.

Deeply Catholic, I was told birth control is discouraged and abortion is illegal.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/18/asia/philippines-abortion-ban-debate-women-rights-roe-wade-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=population+of+the+philippines

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One of the two countries where divorce is illegal even (the other being Vatican City).

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SamuelJohnson Jun 4, 2023

@lorddimwit @brewsterkahle Also Malta.

The Philippines was "the Pearl of the Orient" once (pre WW2) but has been overtaken in GDP per capita by most other Asian countries largely bc of rising population. Has been an ecological disaster as well as an economic one.

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♾️ Yuki (스노 雪亮) 🐬 🧮🗝️Jun 4, 2023

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I don't know… the lack of a law does not mean something is “illegal”. For there to be a divorce process, there has to be a law. And for something to be “illegal” there should be a law about it as well.

If I am not mistaken, it was this lack of law making divorce “legal” or “illegal” is how the Family Code of the Philippines found a way to recognise divorce for those who were married under Islamic rites. So, for Muslims in the Philippines, they can have a State recognised divorce.

There are also “foreign divorce” setups that was/is recognised by the Philippines. Which kind of demonstrate that divorce is not “illegal” just because there is a lack of law around it.

I want my country to recognise religious divorce, just the way they recognise Islamic divorce. There is no logic why only Islamic divorce is recognised. Then from there, they can add legal divorce.

There are only two ways I see it: they're afraid of Muslims, or double standards.

Did you know that the State of the Philippines also legally recognises #polygyny (man with more than one wife; but not the other way around), as long as they were married under Islamic rites?

But they won't recognise polygyny in other religions… why?

It brings us back to: (a) they are afraid of Muslims or something; or, (b) double standards.

Anyway… I guess those were off-topic.

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