Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by Rome Jorge in Oplan Pepe
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” Lord Acton famously said. This holds true for religious institutions, which in the Philippines hold too much political clout and are much too profitable for their own good.
- Require financial transparency and mandatory public auditing on all religious institutions.
- Create and support affordable secular alternatives in quality education.
- Outlaw both religious and scholastic discrimination in employment. Meritocracy demands that we be judged for our work and not for the religion we profess or the school our parents could afford.
- All educational institutions—private or public—must be prevented from discriminating against children of single mothers and others with non-conventional lifestyles.
- Anti-sexual discrimination laws must be implemented in all institutions without exception—including religious organizations. Women must be allowed to rise to all ranks open to men.
- Members of policy-making and cultural bodies such as the MTRCB must be qualified by their artistic and academic credentials. Being a religious leader does not make a person more morally upright than anyone else.
- Any institution that is not democratically and financially accountable to the people should not have a say in a free and democratic society.
Er, am I the only one missing the point of this “essay”? A little more structure please, and a little less random liberalism.
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