By Mortz C. Ortigoza
(NOTE: Itong blog/news article isinulat ko ito last year noong na locked down ako sa Mindandao. Doon nag krus uli ang landas namin ni Manang Virgie Sullaga - isang seasoned vegetable vendor. Sa aming huntahan sinabi niya na ang malaking lumang bahay na tinitirhan ko ay pinamumugaran ng mga Enkanto. Si Nang Virgie ay lumisan at namayapa na sa daigdigang ito kahapon. Condolences sa kanyang pamilya)
This story is not about an American preacher in a village in the Philippines asking his congregation who are mostly peasants “Who among them have sex with a ghost?”
The preacher, whose intention was to jest, was surprised when a farmer in his early 20s stood to affirm he had copulation with the object.
“Really, you had sex with a ghost or spelled G-H-O-S-T?” the stunned preacher asked.
The peasant immediately apologized to the pastor that it was not a G-H-O-S-T he had sex for countless of times but a G-O-A-T.
“Unfortunately that stocky female goat, er, doe had been butchered when Mortz Ortigoza arrived here in the town last March 13 and could not go back to Luzon because of the locked down because of the Corona Virus Disease-19,” he said embarrassed.
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Son of a gun, I remembered the classic case Hustler Magazine and Larry C. Flynt, Petitioners v. Jerry Falwel where smut Hustler Magazine publisher Flynt sued by Southern Baptist Reverend Falwel.
Hustler magazine featured in a parody the first sexual encounter, an incestuous rendezvous, of the Reverend to his mother in the family outhouse while they were both "drunk off our God-fearing asses on Campari."
That criminal and civil cases became a hall mark jurisprudence on press freedom, when the U.S Supreme Court held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit public figures from recovering damages for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress (IIED), if the emotional distress was caused by a caricature, parody, or satire of the public figure that a reasonable person would not have interpreted as factual.
