Should State and Church be Separated?

I thought church and state in the Philippines have been constitutionally separated years ago. So why then thus the Cardinal and the whole Roman Catholic have such say on how this country should be run? And why would they even threaten the incumbent present with excommunication for a bill that is much needed by this country?

Excommunication. I thought I've heard the last of that when I watched Dapitan a few years ago. And I thought the Philippines saw the last excommunication because of political issues when Rizal was excommunicated because he wanted change for the country more than a century ago.
I guess I was dead wrong.

I wholeheartedly support what Carlos Celdran did to express his views. There is just no other medium to be heard clearly and succinctly by the Catholic Church who are closed and only sticks to what they were told irregardless of whether they are being detrimental to the growth of the nation. True, it is their duty to nurture the spiritual life of each individual, but it is also their duty to protect their flock and make decisions that will be for the good of all and not just stick to the good old-fashioned beliefs just because the Cardinal said so.

The verse go and multiply yourself is only true in the Old Testametnt when population was still scarce. Today we can scarcely say that. Jesus' teaching in the New Testament is to go and preach the gospel. That gospel is love for neighbor and for God. Because if we follow both then we will do our utmost to protect our brethren who cannot protect themselves.

The church does not have any right, nor any religion for that matter to condemn anyone or excommunicate anyone. Only God has that right.

As Jesus said, let what's Caesar's be given to Caesar and God's to God.