WOMEN’S rights advocates filed on Thursday an ethics complaint at the House of Representatives against Quezon City 4th District Rep. Bong Suntay over his statements involving Anne Curtis in a committee meeting. The statements were made on Tuesday in a meeting of the House Committee on Justice, when Suntay addressed Vice President Sara Duterte’s statement that she imagined killing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. by saying he saw Anne Curtis at the Shangri-La, and she was so beautiful and desirable that he imagined what might happen. “But of course, it was just my imagination. Maybe I cannot be sued because I imagined various things,” he said in Filipino. His remarks were stricken from the record. In an interview on ANC’s “Headstart” on Thursday, Suntay acknowledged that his “analogy was done in poor taste.” “I want to apologize to Miss Anne Curtis, all the women out there who got offended by the statement that I made,” he said. “I regret making that analogy. It was wrong.” On Wednesday evening, during plenary session, Laguna 1st District Rep. Ann Matibag, the chairman of the House Committee on Women and Gender Equality, asked that the matter be referred to the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges. Suntay said he respected the feelings of his fellow lawmakers. He said, “I was arguing on principles that lawyers and legislators should know” which was that a person “cannot be held liable for mere thoughts, imaginations or associations without an overt act.” “But like I said, the analogy might have been in bad taste and taken in the wrong context,” he said. Suntay said in a radio DZMM interview earlier on Wednesday that “it was an imaginary situation. It was a fictitious situation. I have not even seen Anne Curtis in person, but I have seen her on TV.” He said when he spoke at the plenary on Wednesday evening. “My record on women’s welfare is real. The gender and development code, and the ‘Bawal Bastos Ordinance,’ which I authored in Quezon City, were not small achievements.” He said further on that “we should look at the person by his actions and not mere statements. I think there is no perfect person here.” He hoped that he would “be judged not from one statement but from the kind of person that I am, how, what kind of person I am, what principle I have and how I fight for it.” San Juan Rep. Ysabel Zamora moved to refer Matibag’s speech to the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges for appropriate action. There was no objection, and her motion was approved.