SOGIE BILL
GRADE 9 ST. ANDREW
SUBMITTED BY: IVAN CHRISTIAN LOVITOS
SUBMITTED TO: MR. RODEL ALCOSER
SOGIE BILL
In 2017, House Bill No. 4982, sponsored by Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao (the principal author
of the measure since her first term), Bataan Rep. Geraldine Roman, Akbayan Party-List Rep. Tomas
Villarin, and several others, was not approved on third and final reading for the first time since
2001[4] with 198 members of the House of Representatives voting for the bill and none opposing it, a
historic pro-LGBT move from the House of Representatives.[5]
The counterpart bill in the Senate, filed by Senator Risa Hontiveros (the first Akbayan senator), was
in the period of interpolations by May 2018. It is backed by Senators Loren Legarda, Grace
Poe, Nancy Binay, Franklin Drilon, Bam Aquino, Chiz Escudero, Ralph Recto, Sonny Angara, JV
Ejercito, Francis Pangilinan, Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Leila de Lima, although de Lima is barred from
voting on the bill as she is currently in police custody.[6][7] It was opposed by Senators Tito
Sotto, Manny Pacquiao, Cynthia Villar, and Joel Villanueva (who signed up as a co-author of the
bill).[8] Other senators such as Win Gatchalian, Koko Pimentel, Antonio Trillanes, Panfilo Lacson,
and Richard J. Gordon have not yet expressed their support or rejection of the bill. Senator Trillanes
is currently facing cases that may put him in jail, which may make him ineligible to vote for the bill
like senator De Lima if ever he is arrested. Additionally, Alan Peter Cayetano and Gregorio
Honasan no longer have voting rights on Senate measures as they declined to be part of the
presidential cabinet.[9] All in all, out of the existing 24 Senate seats: 12 seats support and can vote on
the bill; 1 seat supports but cannot vote on the bill (although the number may rise to 2); 4 seats
oppose and can vote on the bill; 5 seats can vote on the bill but have not yet given their positions on
it (although the number may be reduced to 5); and 2 seats are de facto vacated.[9] For a bill to pass
the Senate, it needs a vote of 50% (12) of the body, plus one (1) vote for a total of thirteen (13)
votes. The SOGIE Equality Bill currently is supported by 12 seats that are allowed to vote on the
measure.[10]
The bill is also supported by the Catholic student governments of University of the Philippines-
Diliman (UPD), Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University(DLSU)-Manila, De La
Salle - College of St. Benilde (CSB), Far Eastern University (FEU), Miriam College (MC), St.
Scholastica's College (SSC)-Manila and San Beda University (SBU). The longest running LGBT
student organization UP Babaylan has also been supporting the bill ever since it was first filed.,[11] as
well as known celebrities and icons such as Heart Evangelista, Nadine Lustre, Bianca Gonzalez, Iza
Calzado, Charo Santos-Concio, Dingdong Dantes, Joey Mead King, Divine Lee, Karen Davila, Chot
Reyes, Tootsy Angara, BJ Pascual, Samantha Lee, Christine Bersola-Babao, Rajo Laurel, Tim
Yap, Anne Curtis, Mari Jasmine, Laureen Uy, Pia Wurtzbach, Lorenzo Tañada III, Vice
Ganda, Arnold Van Opstal, and Chel Diokno.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
In March 2018, a small group of Christians protested at the Senate against the SOGIE bill by calling
the proposed legislation an 'abomination', adding that homosexuality is allegedly a 'sin' citing that
their 'hate' is allegedly credible because it is supposedly written in the Bible and that viewing that
identifying as part of the LGBT community is a supposedly a 'lifestyle'.[21] The group also claimed that
the bill relates to same-sex marriage, which is not found anywhere within the bill.[22] Senators
Villanueva, Gatchalian, and Villar spoke against same-sex marriage after the protest.[23] In May 2018,
senator Tito Sotto, who opposes the SOGIE bill, became the new Senate President. In an interview,
Sotto was asked on the bill's passage, to which he responded, "Not in this congress."[9]
In July 2018, various high-profile celebrities rallied for the passage of the SOGIE bill. They also
called out senators Sotto, Pacquiao, and Villanueva to end the debates and pass the proposed
legislation.[13] In August 2018, on the height of the bill's postponed debates, various discrimination
events against the Filipino LGBT community surfaced, causing public calling for the passage of the
SOGIE Equality Bill in the Senate.[24][25] Numerous influential personalities, including political allies of
the three senators who oppose the bill, sided with the calls to pass the landmark proposal.[17][24][7]
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOGIE_Equality_Bill
I agree that Sogie Bill will become a Law for the LGBTQ members so that they have a equality.
If others said that God only created Men and Females, The members of the LGBTQ is also a
Male and Female at their own feelings. Also the Male and Females will have their Privacy at
their Comfort Room. Also they can File a Case if they are abused by the other people. Let us
Treat the a true siblings because God created them.
