PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte should not heed calls by the leader of a Protestant-based Christian group to apologize for his “blasphemous” statements against God, Malacanang said on Wednesday.

“I don’t think anyone can demand anything from anyone – not because he is President, but, as he said, ‘answer if you want to answer.’ That is the form of free speech [we have in the Philippines],” Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said shortly after Brother Eddie Villanueva of the Jesus is Lord Movement asked the President to issue a public apology for saying that God was “stupid.”

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