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Ang Ladlad LGBT Party vs. Commission on Elections (COMELEC)

ANG LADLAD LGBT PARTY represented herein by its Chair, DANTON REMOTO, Petitioner, versus COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, Respondents

G.R. No. 190582 | 2010-04-08

D E C I S I O N

DEL CASTILLO, J.:
 
... [F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. 
 
Justice Robert A. Jackson
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette[1]
 
One unavoidable consequence of everyone having the freedom to choose is that others may make different choices - choices we would not make for ourselves, choices we may disapprove of, even choices that may shock or offend or anger us. However, choices are not to be legally prohibited merely...