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    SORIANO v. MTRCB

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    The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) preventively suspended Eliseo Soriano's television show "Ang Dating Daan" for 20 days based on certain utterances he made. Soriano sought to nullify the suspension order. The issue was whether Soriano's statements were part of religious discourse protected under the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that Soriano's statements did not convey any religious belief and were made out of anger, not religious conviction. Therefore, MTRCB properly suspended Soriano from appearing on "Ang Dating Daan" for three months.

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    The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) preventively suspended Eliseo Soriano's television show "Ang Dating Daan" for 20 days based on certain utterances he made. Soriano sought to nullify the suspension order. The issue was whether Soriano's statements were part of religious discourse protected under the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that Soriano's statements did not convey any religious belief and were made out of anger, not religious conviction. Therefore, MTRCB properly suspended Soriano from appearing on "Ang Dating Daan" for three months.

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    The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) preventively suspended Eliseo Soriano's television show "Ang Dating Daan" for 20 days based on certain utterances he made. Soriano sought to nullify the suspension order. The issue was whether Soriano's statements were part of religious discourse protected under the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that Soriano's statements did not convey any religious belief and were made out of anger, not religious conviction. Therefore, MTRCB properly suspended Soriano from appearing on "Ang Dating Daan" for three months.

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    SORIANO v. MTRCB

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    The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) preventively suspended Eliseo Soriano's television show "Ang Dating Daan" for 20 days based on certain utterances he made. Soriano sought to nullify the suspension order. The issue was whether Soriano's statements were part of religious discourse protected under the constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that Soriano's statements did not convey any religious belief and were made out of anger, not religious conviction. Therefore, MTRCB properly suspended Soriano from appearing on "Ang Dating Daan" for three months.

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    SORIANO v.

    MTRCB

    FACTS: In these two petitions for certiorari and prohibition under Rule 65, petitioner
    Eliseo F. Soriano seeks to nullify and set aside an order and a decision of the Movie
    and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) in connection with certain
    utterances he made in his television show, Ang Dating Daan.

    After a preliminary conference in which petitioner appeared, the MTRCB, by Order of


    August 16, 2004, preventively suspended the showing of the Ang Dating Daan program
    for 20 days, in accordance with Section 3(d) of PD No. 1986, creating the MTRCB, in
    relation to Sec. 3, Chapter XIII of the 2004 Implementing Rules and Regulations of PD
    1986 and Sec. 7, Rule VII of the MTRCB Rules of Procedure. The same order also set
    the case for preliminary investigation.

    The following day, petitioner sought reconsideration of the preventive suspension order,
    praying that Chairperson Consoliza P. Laguardia and two other members of the
    adjudication board recuse themselves from hearing the case.[6]  Two days after,...
    however, petitioner sought to withdraw his motion for reconsideration, followed by the
    filing with this Court of a petition for certiorari and prohibition, docketed as G.R. No.
    164785, to nullify the preventive suspension order... thus issued.

    ISSUE: Whether or not Soriano‘s statements during the televised ―Ang Dating Daan
    part of the religious discourse and within the protection of Section 5, Art.III.

    RULING: No. The petitioner’s statements did not convey any particular religious belief,
    and nothing furthered his avowed evangelical mission. Merely being in a bible
    exposition program does not automatically entail that statements made are of a religious
    discourse. “…he was moved by anger and the need to seek retribution, not by any
    religious conviction.”

    Under the circumstances obtaining in this case, therefore, and considering the adverse
    effect of petitioner’s utterances on the viewers’ fundamental rights as well as petitioner’s
    clear violation of his duty as a public trustee, the MTRCB properly suspended him from
    appearing in Ang Dating Daan for three months.

    Furthermore, it cannot be properly asserted that petitioner’s suspension was an undue


    curtailment of his right to free speech either as a prior restraint or as a subsequent
    punishment. Aside from the reasons given above (re the paramountcy of viewers rights,
    the public trusteeship character of a broadcaster’s role and the power of the State to
    regulate broadcast media), a requirement that indecent language be avoided has its
    primary effect on the form, rather than the content, of serious communication. There are
    few, if any, thoughts that cannot be expressed by the use of less offensive language.

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