The video features Lester Miravales, a deaf gay teacher, confronting a government stance that brands homosexuals as immoral. Through a bilingual (English–Filipino) monologue interspersed with a second speaker, Miravales denounces the labeling as bigoted, gender‑biased, and harmful, arguing that morality is subjective and that only a divine judgment should apply. He warns that such rhetoric can lead to criminalization of gay sex, justify hate crimes, and restrict education and employment for LGBTQ+ people. Miravales invokes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the pending Anti‑Discrimination Bill, calling for a shift in societal consciousness, family structures, and institutional policies. The repeated refrain “I am not immoral” serves both as personal affirmation and a rallying cry against marginalization.
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I couldn't believe that in this time and age, a government would label or marginalize a sector or a community to be immoral.
God, you know, this is a human rights issue.
It's backwards thinking. Malaking ba gay kapag pinawa ka na pilang immoral. It's very harsh to lay as a judgment on any person. It was very, very hurtful. It was very hurtful for me to hear something like that. Parang, sinisokat ka yung indang almobi lang tao. Parang pinugutan ka ng ulo. There are just so many things wrong with branding all homosexuals in general as immoral. It was so bigoted. It was appalling to me. It was purely gender-biased. Extremely alarming. But coming from a government who doesn't have, who doesn't stand on a moral ground, then in effect it is also insignificant. This creates a consciousness in people that, you know, it's okay to call gay people as immoral. How dare you call us immoral? Who are you to condemn? There's a disconnection with being immoral and being me, because I am not immoral. I am not immoral.
I am not immoral.
I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. Tawagin tayong immoral. Hindi ako immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. The first thing that came to mind was, am I really immoral? I don't know what the base is being immoral right now. Now I'm confused. I'm a good citizen. I'm a halcon in Ang Bayan. I go to mass, I pray a lot. I pay my taxes, I vote regularly, I'm active politically. We're everywhere, we're in In every street, in every corporation, in every field, we're there. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. Morality is subjective. Actually, if you say immoral, it's not just for the people who are bad. If you say immoral, immoral is immoral.
They use religious garb as their disguise, but it's a twist way of expressing their faith. Bakit? Marami sa LGBT community ay people of faith din.
Why would it be bad to actually be yourself? It is only God that could actually judge me and could actually say that if I am or if I am not immoral. I think we can agree to disagree. What I don't like about their position is they don't grant the other person any amount of moral recognition. How can I be a threat to the youth? Worried because it could be the start of the criminalization of gay sex in the country. It can be used as well to rationalize hate crimes. It can actually be used to rationalize why gay men should not be allowed to study, should not be allowed to work. It could open the possibility of other laws being redefined to criminalize homosexuality. I am Lester Miravales. I am deaf and I am proud to be gay. I've been teaching for 8 years. If I am a threat to the youth, then I have turned 3,000 students gay already by now. I have raised a lot of nephews and nieces. You mean to tell me that I have threatened their lives just because I took care of them? I am not a threat. I am not immoral. I am not immoral.
Step 1 again, telling people that we are not immoral.
I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. I am not immoral. Niniwalakho doon sa visa ng Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mandato nilang protectahan ng karapatang mawatis sa kasama ng lesbianas.
This is the real clash of civilizations, this idea that one group of people is inferior to another. What we need to counter this is also fundamental. We have to change the way we live as families, the way we raise our children, the way we befriend each other or enter into relationships with each other. Kapaten ng mga institution ng Lipunan natin, maabot ng ganiton kasing pagbabago. And that's what the Anti-Discrim Bill wants to be a part of. A change of consciousness and a change of systems as well.
