We need the fittest Christian leader for the country

Such a leader is nameless for now because we should not preempt the process. But the description answers the one question I have been getting for sometime now. In choosing the next President, I will propose that we assign an important role to religion and morality. Admittedly, no human society can stand for long without any moral or religious foundation; the quality of its governance will always rest on the strength of its religious and moral values and principles. Its policies and programs will rise or fall as they conform or fail to conform to those values and principles.

Now if our unlit galaxy of politicians believe this, they have not made it manifest in their personal behavior. They casually invoke God in their speeches, as Mrs. Grace Poe Llamanzares and Sen. Francis Escudero did when they launched their respective candidacies at the University of the Philippines, but they will not go beyond using God and religion for their cheap political ends.