Sunday, September 14, 2008

Repealing the Hatchet.


Lots of people have asked me about my opinion on homosexuality, me being a christian extremist, and me being gay as well.
Do I think it's right? - No.
Do I think it's wrong? - No.

I just think that it's a phenomenon in human beings that human beings are inherently imperfect. That out of every few hundreds being born everyday, one turns out different.
Do we isolate albinos?
Do we isolate children born with cerebal palsy?

Not that I'm comparing the gay community with defects, but rather, morality and religion dictates what makes us "perfect" or "imperfect".

If God says that homosexuality is a sin, then it is a sin. But so is smoking, gambling, pre-marital sex, stealing and even masturbation a sin.
Society criminalize what it wants to criminalize then releases "sin" into the general populace.

Is it fair? Why does section 377A exist, when people can openly gamble in Singapore?

If the government is indeed doing this for the Christian (majority) populace, then why not ban all the others as well?

While to some it may seem that it's a difference of issue, to those that are affected, it's outright hypocrisy.

I struggle with 3 things in my Christian walk, to the point of crippling.

1) Reconciling the fact that "God" is a "Loving" God, and yet condemns what I can't help doing.

2) That Homosexuality stand out as a "greater sin" in the Christian community then any other issue put altogether. (Even the bid to stop the building of the integrated resort didn't go through).

3) That the entire world is poise on the brink of being antichristian because of the fact that Encompassing Love and Condemnation are contradictory, and Christianity and Condemnation seem to be walking hand-in-hand with each other.

The worst part? - The three points above are undisputedly happening within Christian community in Singapore.

I'm gay.

Christians look at me with skepticism and cynicism, because I claim to love God, and yet I do things that are contradictory to His Word.

Non-Christians look at me with bewilderment because they wonder why I still cling on so tightly to a God that "hates" me and a community that loathes me even more.

Funny thing is, I'm yet to face direct condemnation from my christian peers and leaders, yet I can tell that they approach that topic with extra caution when talking about it in front of me.





Gone are the times when gays had to hide in the shadow, away from the sun, away from the mobbing populace.
We can't change ourselves, and it's ridiculous to even think that we can.
Trying will only cause us to end up hurting the opposite sex and ourselves.

Why love when unrequited love is like a million daggers that pierces the soul?




Singapore has already been classified as a closed, conservative country, the babylon of the gay community, and the capital of intolerance in South East Asia.

Do I care? No.

I love Singapore the way it is now. And for all what people say, I'm still gay. And I'm still a Christian.

Don't you think that repealing it takes away the stinging kind of ironic fun you have?



It only makes me more self-assured that I am indeed unique, and all of you are different.
It's understandable that you all can't understand.
But I don't care.

Just be the same. =)

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