377a (the delayed post), and “rantastic” stuff

“This is an appeal to all Christians reading this article and supported keeping 377a.

Forgive me for saying this but as a Straight Male Jesus Worshiper, I’m extremely distraught at how homophobic the local Christian Conservative Community has become. Yes, Biblical authority may teach that homosexuality is wrong but that doesn’t mean it is right for anyone to impose their will on others, especially a minority group.

By successfully galvanizing the local Christian community and appealing to the government to retain 377a, we as Christians have shown one thing: We put more trust in Man-made laws than the divine providence and grace of God.

Jesus taught us that we are to Love our neighbor and to put our absolute faith in Him. By putting faith in an archaic and barbaric law like 377a to prevent/discourage homosexuality, we have in principle insulted and made an affront to His teachings and sacrifice.

Homosexuality may be a sin, but is it more sinful than other sins (E.g. Adultery, Deceit, Sloth), to the extend that it has to be purged with the fear of physical incarceration? We believe that the wages of sin is eternal damnation and this is far worse than the highest given penalty for 377a.

We are exalted to be meek and to love our neighbors. Rather than spend time voicing out our opposition, shouldn’t we as Christians be more concerned about reaching out to sinners and those who do not know of His love rather than demonizing them for merely exercising their rights as fellow Singaporeans?

We should be ashamed of ourselves for blatantly criminalizing and discriminating the local gay community, ALL of whom Jesus bled and died a horrible death on the cross for and are made in the image of the same God we worship.

The last time I checked, the Jesus I worship saved a woman committing sexual sin from capital punishment. (John 8:1-11) Rather than allowing the self-righteous pharisees to stone her, He saved her and told her to sin no more. Jesus had paid the ultimate penalty because of all our sins and it saddens me to see us put judgment into our own hands: Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

So to those Christians who reading this post, I urge you to reconsider your stand on the churches’ support on infringing the civil rights of fellow gay singaporeans and to tell your gay friends that no matter what happens, Jesus loves him/her and that He did not die for the righteous but for the oppressed and those who are in need.

F.H.B.T.I.M.L
Julian Low”

I found the above on one of the many sites discussing the 377a debate. http://tomorrow.sg/node/view/7603

Among the many comments that were seemingly well-thought-out and balanced, but actually were biased personal opinions hidden under a veneer of proper grammar and sentence structure, with links to godknowswhere and quotes from supposedly reliable sources, the comment that I quoted at length was a breath of fresh air. Not jsut because I’m pro-gay, but also because here is a person who can see both sides of the argument AND manage to comment without bad/antagonising language! :D hallelujah, really.

IF you find boredom enough to trawl through the link above, seaowteochew made me want to go throw a nail clipper at the tv (like I did in p6 while watching the 7pm show), or at him, really. He seems so learned and everything but he’s actually shoving his anti-gay opinion down people’s throats while saying, “why are you so fixated on shoving things down people’s throat? your deviant sexuality is troubling. i suggest electro-convulsive therapy for people like you.”

ARGH GO AND DIE LAH YOU HORRIBLE HYPOCRITE. also thank goodness, for I have settled christmas presents for the people I will be seeing soonest. Though, while buying said presents, I bought two for my girlfriends, but decided to keep them to myself, as they were just too “me” to resist.

The presents are ______, by the way. :D with personalised slogans! i thought up a really good one for my cousin Kenric (”i’m the ken to your barbie”- srsly, so cute, right?!), but my mom said she doesn’t want me to do christmas presents for the cousins, even though my budget this year is super super cheap- $_ per guy and $_ per girl. I’m proud enough that I’m bothering with presents, so, no guilt trips, there.

/edit my mom is fucking crazy. next thursday, she’s asking me to take my sister home from her ballet class, and babysit her ALONE at home. why? because she’s going to sneak out to my stepdad’s show, to see why he thinks some emcee is better than she is.

basically, my uncle once removed (or my mom’s cousin) asked my mom to emcee a show. she referred him to my stepdad because she didn’t know what to charge him, and my stepdad hired some girl who charges $1,200 and up per show. his reason: people will look down on emcees who charge below $500, but my mom’s standard isn’t nowhere near $500 rate. sounds perfectly reasonable to me. of course, not to my mom: 1. she’s mad that he referred ‘her’ show to some other girl, 2. she wants to see what exactly makes him think that this girl is better than she is, 3. she probably thinks he’s cheating on her.

well if i were her husband, i would so totally divorce her first chance. she can be nice, but even when she’s nice, i don’t particularly like her :/ and anyway, the way i see it is this: 1. from what she told him, i don’t even think he knew my uncle wanted her to emcee the show. 2. well, duh, professional vs non-professional? 3. hahahaa sucks to be her, then. she shouldn’t have married in the first place. my stepdad is very annoying sometimes. i’d pick my real dad over stepdad anyday, even though my daddy has a paunch and smokes and is bald (but shaves his head so he can pretend it’s a fashion statement) and wears pasarmalam worthy clothes vs. stepdad who is tan and fit and cute and wears things from quiksilver and stussy and flesh imp etc etc expensive places.

my parents are sad, sad, people.

also, when i suggested to my mom that she do the laundry everyday, she asked me whether i’d rather do it for her. for god’s sakes, woman, it’s only a suggestion! and when i told this to her, she asked me if I thought doing the laundry every day was very fun. well, life isn’t all a happy meal, eh? and personally, i feel that if she built up an actual schedule everyday for her househould chores, and did each chore everyday/once every two days, her eventual workload would be a lot less, AND she’d feel better about herself, too. the backyard would be constantly clear, and the sink wouldn’t have to be overflwoing with dirty dishes and milk bottles.

obviously i did not even mention the bit about the schedule, because it’s true that I don’t do the chores myself, and also, I am the very antithesis of a scheduled person. D: we’ll see, when I eventually manage my own household, whose method works better. the “wait til the clothes in the backyard are practically fermenting in the accumulated bacteria, then spend 2 days sloughing away” method or the “oh look there’s today’s weeny pile of laundry, it perfectly fits one load in the washing machine! and while that’s washing, let’s iron the stuff on the hangers!” method.

>: silly woman. i may look a little like her, but thank God my personality is the complete opposite.

Apologies for the rant. It’s less rantful than last time, though): sorry for putting you guys through all this shit. i should have something worthwhile to write soon. Soon, soon. It will come. Self-fulfilling prophecy, anyone?

~ by sydney on November 9, 2007.