Lawrence Khong and his merry band of self-righteous pastors four days ago met Singapore’s Minister for Law (and foreign affairs), the will-fucking-sue-you-if-you-expose-my-not-so-clean-personal-life K. Shanmugam.
They talked about sex.
And their very naive brand of “moral” values. They wanted assurance from the immoral Shanmugam that Singapore’s archaic law on homosexuality is here to stay. Evangelical christians, think Mick Huckabee, Rick Warren, Pat Robertson, John Macarthur, love to poke their noses into areas constitutionally and politically forbidden to them. They think they can transform modern societies into stone-age autocracies.
Anyway, the fuckers got what they wanted.
Fellow humanists, let them smile and scratch one another’s back. No prudish community can resist the tide of change in the 21st century unless they amish themselves. PAP along with Singapore’s fundamentalist religions may maintain their Neanderthal mindsets for now. It will not last.
Dear LGBT friends, I may be all red-blooded heterosexual, but let me be your comrade. Bigotry is an enemy I cannot love. Neither would Jesus if he lives in Singapore today. We may not live to see the day Singapore wakes up from her coma. We may not live to see Singapore christians genuinely loving their neighbour with NO agenda of proselytisation. But we can dream. We can fight. And for as long as we have the strength to protest, to debate, to speak up; for as long as I have the mind to wield the pen, you and I, comrades, will do battle against the powers that be.
Here we stand. We can do no other.
Or die trying.
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