In the same week that Barack Obama and Jay-Z offered their support for same-sex marriage, famed boxer Manny Pacquiao offered a dissenting view.
Meanwhile, his wife had tried to divorce him for alleged infidelities. Clearly, everyone should listen to his stance on the sanctity of marriage.
This comes as a big blow to me, because I look to famous boxers to before I make any political decisions.
What an ass. Every rabbinic commentary on Sodom says the city was destroyed because the wealthy citizens of Sodom were cruel and vindictive towards the poor and needy. Their sexual assault of travelers was just a minor example of their cruelty towards the needy.
Please remember, he isn’t the president of the Philippines and DOES NOT represent all filipinos. Just as Obama’s stance is not shared by all Americans - which is unfortunate. Courtney Stodden and Kim Kardashian marriages seems pretty Sodom and Gomorrah to me.
Being filipino, I have yet to see a family shun their gay son or lesbian daughter. I have a “tom boy” cousin in my family and she has only felt love and acceptance from our family. But filipino Catholics are…you know those videos that come out at Easter of short brown people crucifying themselves? Yeah, they are filipino. Freaking Spain couldn’t keep to themselves.
Manny, your arms are too short to box with God. And when I was talking to God the other day, he told me he was cool with gays…and that you should get prepared for a future of brain-rattled dementia.
Well there goes any hope of gay marriage in the Phillipines. What’s that? There was no hope anyway? Oh yeah… right. Where’s that ‘MEH’ button again?
he is just trying to stay relevant people. Boxers dont get involved with anything outside the ring, silly Manny
I think what people fail to understand about this is that Manny Pacquiao is from the Philippines, obviously the culture there differs from ours greatly. I’m Filipino-American, and although I do keep a lot of my culture, my faith in the church isn’t as strong as my parents tried to raise me or the way that they and most other Filipinos were raised. I think his beliefs are strongly influenced by that. So for people getting their panties in a knot, calm down. The Philippines hasn’t experienced something like this yet. Not many people are speaking out about gay marriage, and it is what it is there. So for now, while beliefs there are strongly religious and no one really pays attention to gay rights, his opinion will probably stay the same. Someday their country might become as developed as ours and it’ll matter more. But for now that’s how it is.
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