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Has anyone been following the recent cross fire in straits times forums about the gay issues? Today the issue made front page on the Home section.
Gay Backlash: Some Christians react strongly to Govt's Change in Hiring Policy
...(National council of Churches of Singapore) meeting ended with a consensus to draft an immediate plan of action that every pastor and church can adopt in our battle against homosexuality...
Do these guys enamour Bush so much that they seek to emulate his paranoid violent behavior by seeking an imagined threat of their own to battle? Have these guys not forgotten that their forefathers became Protestant because of discrimination against them for their own desire to re-interprate their lives and their beliefs, and now seek to discriminate against others in the same fashion?
Check this guy out: Pastor Yang from Cornerstone Cummunity Church, "Homosexuality is a sin and it is far more rampant, militant and organised than most of us actually believe it to be."
What, you saying there's an rampant underground gay army recruiting our young minds and causing us to get attracted to members of our own gender? OMFG! (no pun intended) This guy is a pastor! And yet depths of ignorance, bigotry and sanctimoniuosness does NOT elude one of his station. Religion can be based on faith, but social issues must be founded on reason. This movement is causing a further departure from social cohesion than accepting gays into civil service positions will ever come to.
Not to condemn all Christions, for i've known quite a few i've come to respect, a number of Christion members of Status spoke against this movement, and i appluad them for their courage to face political and psuedo-religious opposition to stand up for their compassionate beliefs and concept of an all-loving God:
"From my meeting with members of the gay and lesbian community, i have come to see them as normal human beings even though their sexual orientation is different from mine." -Reverand Yap Kim Hao
"It is not very Christian to provoke people to go against a group of people who, i believe, would not want to be what they are now if they have a choice."-Sister Theresa Seow, President of the Inter-Religious Organisation sid:this comment a little dubious about the choices part, but i think it wasn't a choice to homosexuals what their orientation was. it just was what it was. Sister Seow did however speak up....
"They must respect the views of others, and respect a person's right to be what he is."-Dr Wang Kai Yuen, Bukit Timah MP and Feedback Unit Chief
I've been following the papers since PM Goh made his historical announcement. All the Pro-gay letters to the forum were compassionate, intelligent, well-researched in terms of examples/statistics/psychological findings. All the Anti-gay letters were declarative, failing to support statements with evidence or reason, condemning and demanding. And stupid, shallow and narrow-minded.
WHat does that tell you? Either of two things: the Straits Times editors do not publish any intelligent Anti-gay letters, or that people who are Anti-gay are just like the letters sent in - obtuse and obstinate. The former was interesting to think about, although the latter is far more probable.
And another Note (ding!), here's a cool word i found out abt:
Evanascence:The name of the band who sang Bring me to life. It means the gradual disappearence of vapour. see the similarity in the word with Evaporate? It can be used in sentences like this - The evanescence of our love started when we ran out of Ganja at the rastafarian convention.
Has anyone been following the recent cross fire in straits times forums about the gay issues? Today the issue made front page on the Home section.
Gay Backlash: Some Christians react strongly to Govt's Change in Hiring Policy
...(National council of Churches of Singapore) meeting ended with a consensus to draft an immediate plan of action that every pastor and church can adopt in our battle against homosexuality...
Do these guys enamour Bush so much that they seek to emulate his paranoid violent behavior by seeking an imagined threat of their own to battle? Have these guys not forgotten that their forefathers became Protestant because of discrimination against them for their own desire to re-interprate their lives and their beliefs, and now seek to discriminate against others in the same fashion?
Check this guy out: Pastor Yang from Cornerstone Cummunity Church, "Homosexuality is a sin and it is far more rampant, militant and organised than most of us actually believe it to be."
What, you saying there's an rampant underground gay army recruiting our young minds and causing us to get attracted to members of our own gender? OMFG! (no pun intended) This guy is a pastor! And yet depths of ignorance, bigotry and sanctimoniuosness does NOT elude one of his station. Religion can be based on faith, but social issues must be founded on reason. This movement is causing a further departure from social cohesion than accepting gays into civil service positions will ever come to.
Not to condemn all Christions, for i've known quite a few i've come to respect, a number of Christion members of Status spoke against this movement, and i appluad them for their courage to face political and psuedo-religious opposition to stand up for their compassionate beliefs and concept of an all-loving God:
"From my meeting with members of the gay and lesbian community, i have come to see them as normal human beings even though their sexual orientation is different from mine." -Reverand Yap Kim Hao
"It is not very Christian to provoke people to go against a group of people who, i believe, would not want to be what they are now if they have a choice."-Sister Theresa Seow, President of the Inter-Religious Organisation sid:this comment a little dubious about the choices part, but i think it wasn't a choice to homosexuals what their orientation was. it just was what it was. Sister Seow did however speak up....
"They must respect the views of others, and respect a person's right to be what he is."-Dr Wang Kai Yuen, Bukit Timah MP and Feedback Unit Chief
I've been following the papers since PM Goh made his historical announcement. All the Pro-gay letters to the forum were compassionate, intelligent, well-researched in terms of examples/statistics/psychological findings. All the Anti-gay letters were declarative, failing to support statements with evidence or reason, condemning and demanding. And stupid, shallow and narrow-minded.
WHat does that tell you? Either of two things: the Straits Times editors do not publish any intelligent Anti-gay letters, or that people who are Anti-gay are just like the letters sent in - obtuse and obstinate. The former was interesting to think about, although the latter is far more probable.
And another Note (ding!), here's a cool word i found out abt:
Evanascence:The name of the band who sang Bring me to life. It means the gradual disappearence of vapour. see the similarity in the word with Evaporate? It can be used in sentences like this - The evanescence of our love started when we ran out of Ganja at the rastafarian convention.
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