CNA Staff, Aug 11, 2020 / 15:14 pm
A Catholic college in the Philippines is defending enrollment and recruitment policies that some critics have decried as a ban on homosexual students and employees. The college maintains that in alignment with Catholic teaching, no sexual orientation is prohibited, but certain sexual acts are.
Assumption College, run by the Sisters of the Religious of the Assumption, is located in Iloilo, a coastal city on the centrally located island of Panay.
A group of 80 Filipino LGBT organizations had released a statement Aug. 7 alleging that Assumption College's policies against immorality go against the Philippines' anti-discrimination laws.
The school responded in a statement saying, "As a Catholic institution, Assumption Iloilo is within its rights to adopt a definition of what constitutes immorality in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church." It added that the school's objective is to provide "an education program and environment animated by Catholic religious belief, traditions, teachings, and doctrine."