Letter from Edmund Leong Meng Tsi
Dr Vivien Balakrishnan advises Singaporeans to be an open, tolerant and mature society, to “Keep religion above the fray of ‘petty politics’” and society to build a “rainbow coalition”. (April 27).
Dr Vivien should warn against intolerance and not -like many others over the past few days- cloud the issue by bringing in religion. Our government will ban any intolerant religions and there is nothing stopping our government from doing so today, and this is clearly not the case here. Religious people in their heightened awareness of compassion tend to be most accepting of people ‘s struggle against disordered desires. Fear and worry of intolerance from truly religious people are misplaced.
Secondly, “rainbow coalition” is the euphemism for GLBT (or Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender). GLBT is liberally labeled as “alternative lifestyles” and conservatively as “disordered behavior” and form no more than 3 per cent of the population of developed countries; this is likely to be a lot less in Singapore.
GLBT have been around in the USA for decades, and despite after so many years of the of coaxing Americans to accept people with GLBT orientations, the broad majority of Americans still exhibit angst and anger. This emotions are from all Americans (not just religious Americans) and arises from the actions (not desires) of the GLBT community.
People are mainly tolerant to disordered desires but not to disordered actions, especially those at the expense of an established culture. We can tolerate and advise against one’s desire to theft and murder, but we cannot tolerate them after they act out their desires, or one’s excessive indulgence for alcohol and smoking promotes social ills. Promotion of excessiveness turns a person against themselves. This is no different for GLBT folks who choose to champion their disordered desire for love and acceptance from an ordered society. It is clear to any rational and ordered society that alternate GLBT lifestyles lack the key element for societal well-being and growth: Natural regenerative life. No society (religious or not) should tolerate actions, especially disordered and undesired actions.
Aware have already publicly announced that their aim is to help all women (regardless of race, language, religion and lifestyles) but not to the promotion of disordered behaviors, especially to impressionable young minds. What is most important is that we focus on meritocracy as there are many people (GBLTs or not) who under-perform.
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