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SC gives go-ahead for religious vote.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: Philip C. Tubeza
RELIGIOUS leaders can now endorse the candidates of their choice without fear of transgressing the law.
The Supreme Court yesterday struck down as unconstitutional a ruling by a Manila lower court which said that election endorsements by religious leaders violated the constitutional provision on the separation of Church and State.
The respondents in the case included influential religious leaders like former Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, Iglesia ni Cristo Executive Minister Erano Manalo, El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde, Ang Dating Daan leader Elisiano Soriano, and evangelist and presidential candidate Bro. Eddie Villanueva.
In a unanimous en banc decision, the high court declared as "void and legally inexistent" the decision of Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Concepcion S. Alarcon-Vergara, citing the substantial technical flaws in her June 2003 ruling.
The high court assailed Vergara for acting "with inexplicable haste, [and] with total ignorance of the law" in deciding the complaint filed by the Social Justice Society questioning the constitutionality of religious leaders endorsing the candidacy of politicians during elections.
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