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Post by dotxom on Oct 24, 2007 0:24:25 GMT -5
But you can't have no buttseks. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7059300.stmI love my country, don't get me wrong. I've grown up to appreciate and embrace at least three different cultures besides my own and I think there's a kind of diversity in Singapore that you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere else. But sometimes, the laws here can be five kinds of WTF. I mean, some of the reasons that I've read for keeping this law seem so bloody ridiculous and wishy-washy. Stuff like if gay sex is allowed, the homosexual community will start to impose their gay agenda on other people. Or, because the majority of people haven't had the chance to move beyond their comfort zone, it's wrong for people who have to live their lives the way they see fit as consenting adults. The saddest thing is I'm sure that I'm not the only person who's not at all surprised that, even though a large number of people have petitioned for its repeal, this archaic law still stays.
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Post by Ziska on Oct 24, 2007 17:21:52 GMT -5
While I am not at all trying to rivialize this, there are some places within the US where this has been the case for some time (anal okay between heterosexuals, but not homosexuals) It really makes no sense.
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Post by Jeffrey on Oct 24, 2007 18:03:24 GMT -5
For a gay man I'm not up on all the laws and whatnot of other countries, but it's definitely archaic and just stupid to have laws like these. Canada has no such laws, thank the heavens! We're even allowed to get married here!!
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Post by Corey Blake on Oct 24, 2007 18:54:43 GMT -5
Interesting that the prime minister acknowledged that the country is conservative and wants to keep it that way.
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Post by dotxom on Oct 25, 2007 1:38:01 GMT -5
It seems that most of the population here prefers it to stay conservative too. It's all really well-planned if you look at it from another angle; from young, the whole dependency on family values and tradition is drilled into us, until most people can't really be bothered to look at things from any other point of view. So, when ideas opposing the status quo come in, they're just looked at with scorn and disdain.
If nothing else, I'm just curious to see how much longer this sorta mommy mentality can last, especially since, unlike places like China, access to the Internet is not completely limited and censored. Like a gay friend of mine said, this wasn't a complete failure. If anything, the general population can't deny that the homosexual community has quite a voice here now.
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