jY - Blog Quote

Just quoting a post that ShouJie posted in their class's blog. I find it to be something realli worth thinking about, and something realli worth reading of course. And i'm gonna quote it in my own blog too! haha.

shoojee: More nonsense
The sunday times page 10 has managed to capture some of the most ironic anti-homosexuality views of the week.

'But family life educator Koh Su Yin said: "By having the parties, we are sending the message to young people that such a lifestyle is okay...We would not want young people to attracted to the gay lifestyle as it undermines the basic family value of committed love, the importance of marriage and the stability of a family that constitutes mother- and father-love."'

Agreeing, Ms Linda Kwek...said: "Homosexuals, like anyone else, have a right to whatever lifestyle they fancy. But if this right becomes a potential threat to family values, then I would rather live in a country that is labelled strait-laced than one plagued by Aids and heartbreaks.'

"We don't need such parties on our doorstep. Call me selfish, but they can happen elsewhere."

'In a week that has seen a man kill his wife and children (as yet unproven, but since dear Balaji can hypothesise--), then commit suicide himself due to (again as yet unproven...but you get the point) money problems and pressure, you can hardly say anything about the "stability" of a dual parent family with a mom and dad. Doubly ironic when you consider that on page 3 of the same ST, a family in Sydney nearly met the same end--parents, heterosexual parents, managed to nearly murder their daughters, aged 6 and 7, by frying sleeping pills into a purple goo and feeding them the mixture. This is the stability, then. The stability and presence of mind that will drive Singaporeans with "family values" to kill their own children and spouse.

You have no right to label homosexuals, I have no right to do that, and no one does unless you know of concrete evidence that homosexuality is linked to rough parenthood and broken families. I speak of families involving two homosexual parents and their children, not families that throw their children out because they are gay, perpetuating the idea that homosexuality, not intolerance, is the sledgehammer that breaks families.

Of course, given the enlightened modern creative innovative industrious printing-pressed Singaporean, the comment by Ms Kwek needs no excuses. Managing to contradict herself in the same breath, she insists that she believes in freedom, and tells the free people to take their act elsewhere. Why not, since homosexuality is by nature an act, a charade to make the rest of us prick-in-holes (or prickholes for short) feel really doubtful about our morality.