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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Singapore may have to legalise homosexuality April 24, 2007 SINGAPORE, April 24 (Reuters) - Singapore may eventually have to legalise homosexuality, particularly if it wants to foster creativity and become more cosmopolitan, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said on Tuesday. "Let's not pretend it doesn't exist," he said in an interview with Reuters, adding that he saw "no option" for Singapore but to decriminalise homosexual sex. "They tell me that homosexuals are creative writers, dancers. If we want creative people, then we have to put up with their idiosyncrasies," Lee said.
Mr Lee, who this week publicly questioned the city-state's ban on sex
between men, said the country would still need to respect the views
of its more conservative citizens.
"We are not promoters of it and we are not going to allow Singapore
to become the vanguard of Southeast Asia," Mr Lee said.
Under Singapore law, a man who is found to have committed an act of
"gross indecency" with another man can be jailed for up to two years,
though prosecutions are rare.
In November, the Ministry of Home Affairs said it was considering
decriminalising oral and anal sex between consenting heterosexual
adults, but not between homosexuals.
The authorities have banned gay festivals and censored gay films,
saying homosexuality should not be advocated as a lifestyle. But,
despite the official ban on gay sex, Singapore has a thriving gay scene.
MM Lee's comments come at a time when many groups, such as
Singapore's Law Society, are clamouring for a review of the laws
against homosexual sex, which they view as outdated and archaic.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This makes me angry. This makes me livid. "They tell me that homosexuals are creative writers, dancers. If we want creative people, then we have to put up with their idiosyncrasies." WHAT THE F**K?????? Someone's sexual orientation is not an idiosyncrasy, Mr Minister-Mentor Lee. How come someone possibly be so demeaning and close-minded and shallow and insensitive?! And how in the world would homosexuals in Singapore affect its being the vanguard of Southeast Asia?!~ Because homosexuality is an exclusively Caucasian thing? It's a rare disease that hampers and impedes the advancement of the economy by its mere presence? And we Asians are above this debilitating "idiosyncrasy"? URGH!!! It frustrates me how people can be so small-minded!!! How can I be expected to live in this country and put up with its shit? And such a statement! If you want creative people, well, stop inviting foreign acts in which take up local theatres. Perhaps some funding to local groups would be good. Maybe try in encourage creativity from primary school, not merely introducing a half-hr session on "creative thinking" per week in secondary 3. And does that mean heterosexual people are not creative? GOODNESS! Where is the justice in this!!!!!!!!! I suspect it's not the more conservative citizens that might be offended, it's the freaking government and its bloody attempt to homogenize the entire country. What is this?! Hitler's Germany minus the mass killing because it's been illegalised? Pretty much like everything else in Singapore is. No one cares about homosexuals romping around the city except the homosexuals! Simply because they can't! So by allowing homosexuality we're "not respecting the views of more conservative citizens"? What about the homosexuals whose sexual orientation has been classified as an "idiosyncrasy"? What about their views? Does noone respect them? By not allowing homosexuality aren't they being disrespected and demeaned and slighted? Does no one care about them then?? Take your small-mindedness and discrimination and double-sidedness Minister-Mentor Lee, and maybe after you legalize homosexual acts, you can think of legalizing some other "idiosyncrasy" of some other "minority group". Just HOW can someone box-ify 'creative people' and say most of them are gay?? ARGH!!!!!!! Just because the dog has four legs doesn't mean all four-legged animals are dogs!!! I am angry. I am very very angry. I am positively seething. If Singapore wants to be the vanguard of anything, it has to stop being so terribly narrow-minded and self-righteous. If Singapore's the vanguard of anything, it's the vanguard of chauvinism, self-righteousness and pompousness, all tightly-wrapped in a tiny box with a white ribbon on the top. And served on a silver platter with the Lee family coat of arms engraved into the gilded rim.Urgh. I can see Singapore's future now. Despite all its bids to be a world-class city; its thriving economy (of which the golden age has already passed); its world's number 1 air and sea port; its intellectual people who study by rote and are spoon-fed; its constant attempts to attract foreign investors into the country; its trying to be a hub for every single damned aspect in the world, she will always be 10years behind everyone. So what if we're a first world country where the average populace is middle-class, where there's hardly any poverty (even if there is they cull them in the middle of the night, I swear), where almost half the population own the 5Cs, so what? We're still none-the-richer than Cuba, a fifth world nation, in terms of humanity. World's best air and sea ports, and we're in the bottom 30 in terms of free-speech. It's almost tantamount to selling your soul to the devil in exchange for some riches, isn't it? Why lock up your dog at home, afraid it'll run away and deprive it of exercise and it'll become fat and unhealthy and die early, when you can bring it out with you and train it to keep to your side even without the leash, and you both benefit from the exercise and he gets to live longer, as do you. I'm sure the citizens of Singapore aren't so unintelligent and unresponsive that they can't be taught like dogs, are they?Stop treating us as children and pets Mr Lee, we are individuals who have thoughts and ideas, and stop suppressing those thoughts of ours from kindergarten, because you will end up with a country full of bitter, scared, silenced old people, who can't think for themselves even if the think-stick walked right up to them and introduced itself, who wouldn't know where to go or what to do if they were dropped in the middle of some foreign country.
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