@Quitacet
So do you agree that INC should not endorse and do block voting this coming election as your kaspi and leaders at edsa rally is calling for the separation of politics and church?
This is really a tricky question because voting per se is a citizen's right and when INC members vote, they practice this right. No issue with separation of church and state there. Now when the leadership endorses say a roster of candidates to the members, and say half of the members followed the endorsement, i am not sure kung may issue ng separation of church and state dito dahil bumoto lang din naman ang myembro at ang ibinoto nya ay ginusto nyang yung inendorso ng leadership. Remember members vote because they believe primarily that the Church's sake is of primary importance to them. Example: if the choice is between a politician with a solid platform but no respect for the INC, and a lesser candidate but with full support to INC, there's no question as to who will be endorsed. If members feel the same way and they followed, then they still voted for who they liked. If members do not like the endorsement, again I said it earlier, you are alone in the precinct and you can do what you want.
There are cases actually that the endorsement comes in the form that "no barangay captains in a baranggay will be supported since they are both antagonistic to the INC"
It's like if you have a business and you employ say 30 employees and one of the candidates happen to be a loyal customer or probably a supplier, you'd want them to win over the other candidates, and might probably share this feeling to your employees as well and explain to them their benefits to the company. But come voting time, walang rollcall kung sino ang bumoto for whom. Ganun din naman sa INC.
May mga nagtatanong nga minsan sa akin, bakit daw ang pinagkaisahan ng INC na iboto ay yung magnanakaw na kandidato na nagpapahirap sa bayan. Ang sinagot ko ay ang INC ba ang may katungkulang moral sa magnanakaw na ito o ang kanyang kinasasapiang religious organization?
The INC's vote they say is 2-3% of the voting public only. Pag naupo ang politiko, kasalanan ng INC. di ba dapat ang kinabibilangan nyang organisasyon ang sisihin kung bakit siya kulang sa turo ng kabanalan?
Uulitin ko, numero uno sa INC sa pagpili ng kandidato yung hindi pipinsalain ang INC in whatever way.
Kaya nga bago mageleksyon, sinasabi din naman sa myembro lalo na sa lokal na lebel na kung may kumakandidatong may nagawang pinsala sa myembro, ipagbigay alam sa mga opisyal para maging gabay din sa pagpili.
For many INC's they vote as INC first and being a Filipino second.