THE United States Supreme Court has recently issued a decision allowing same-sex marriage in all US states, a landmark ruling embraced as a victory long sought by US gay rights movements. The Philippines Supreme Court, likewise, also has a pending petition in their office seeking a similar decision. But this petition, filed by lawyer Jesus Nicardo Falcis III, may come as hard as passing through the eye of a needle, as the country's law contains provisions that limit marriage exclusively between a man and a woman. The Family Code of the Philippines and same-sex marriage According to a Philstar report, Atty. Falcis filed his petition on May 18 of this year, asking the SC to nullify and declare as unconstitutional provisions of the Family Code, which laid down the legal framework for the ban on same-sex marriage. Unlike in the US where there is no law that does not allow same-sex marriage in the country, the Philippines has the Family Code of the Philippines (Ar...