Wankette 19

Some journalists quaking in terror at the Church anti-reproductive health policy makes mistakes in their reporting. Lawyer Carole Ruiz in her blog questioned gma.tv for mixing the Ten Commandments for Voting.

In an article which first attributed the so-called "10 commandments for
responsible voting to the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), the news outfit actually quoted a different set of "10 commandments," one which was in fact created by Pro-Life Philippines, not the PPCRV to which the same article provides links to.

The PPCRV's separate ten commandments for responsible voting as it turns out, echoes the Catholic tradition of *faith based on conscience* and begins with: "1. Thou shalt vote according to the dictate of your conscience." Nowhere in those commandments is specific mention of divorce, reproductive health or homosexuality—issues which GMA7 News chose to highlight in the brief article. The PPCRV website does provides a link to the Pro-Life Philippines version of the ten commandments for responsible voting, but to equate it with the PPCRV version is no small matter.