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Supreme Court junks same-sex marriage petition

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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q0KqvkfIuSY?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>MANILA - The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition that sought to allow same-sex marriage in the Philippines.</p><p>In a decision penned by Associate Justice Marvic Leonen, the high court dismissed the same-sex petition on account of lack of standing of petitioner Jesus Falcis, violation of principle of hierarchy of courts and failing to raise actual, justiciable controversy.</p><p>The SC was also holding Falcis and his counsels in indirect contempt for forgetting &quot;bare rudiments of court procedure and decorum or worse, to purport to know them but really only to exploit them by way of propaganda.&quot;</p><p>Falcis filed the petition in 2015. He described himself in the pleading as &quot;an open and self-identified homosexual.&quot;</p><p>Falcis asked the high court to declare as unconstitutional a portion of the Family Code of the Philippines which &quot;define and limit marriage as between man and woman.&quot;</p>

<p>MANILA - The Supreme Court on Tuesday has dismissed a petition that seeks to allow same-sex marriage in the Philippines.<br /> </p>

MANILA - The Supreme Court on Tuesday has dismissed a petition that seeks to allow same-sex marriage in the Philippines.