THE Supreme Court (SC) en banc has released guidelines for next week’s oral arguments on a plea from gays and lesbians to allow same-sex marriage in the Philippines.

A petition for certiorari was filed by Jesus Nicardo Falcis 3rd, who had sought the high court’s intervention to rule as null and void Executive Order (EO) 209 or the Family Code of the Philippines.

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