Manny Pacquiao Kicks Off Regional LGBT Debate

Manny Pacquaio, the welterweight boxer who is by far the Philippines’ most famous export since Imelda’s bouffant, kicked off an enormous storm last week by branding lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders – LGBTs – as “worse than animals” in an interview that cost him a multimillion dollar Nike endorsement contract.

That, however, is just part of a gr…