'Govt more open to employing gays now.'

--The Straits Times, 4/7/03.

I'm so angry I can't even find the right phrase to describe what is written above. Why must we always ostracise and discriminate against these people?

They're just perfectly ordinary people, just that their sexual interests are different from the rest of us! Just because only ten percent of the world population is homosexual, doesn't mean that we (the majority) can discriminate against them! It's the same logic as that of not discriminating against the minority races. Here in Singapore, a majority of the population is Chinese, but you don't see people discriminating against them that frequently! So why must homosexuals be treated so differently?

And you claim that Singapore is a liberal country! She will not be liberal until her society accepts homosexual people. Once again, I am almost laughing because it all seems so juvenile and childish, and yet so sad at the same time. Just because same-sex pairings don't happen often doesn't mean they don't happen. Of course, it wouldn't be desirable to have same-sex pairings all the time, otherwise the race would die out. What I'm trying desperately to say is that, homosexual people are just like you and me; they live a life, they go to school, they want a job. They don't deserve to be cursed and spit upon by others who know no better; they don't deserve to be treated like animals just because they're different; they shouldn't be denied jobs just because of their sexual interests!

Tell me, please. Why is it that people must be so close-minded? I'm quite sure homosexuality has been around for centuries! There were probably homosexual people in Imperial China as well! My own family is against homoesexuality, and I'm not proud of it. They use the term 'homosexual' as a condemnation, as a kind of curse, something to be ashamed of.

But there's no harm in loving. The way I see it, so long as you love someone, it doesn't matter whether they're Christian or Muslim, black or white, the same sex as you or not. I don't understand why the people of Singapore are so against homosexuality. It isn't as if gays openly have sex in the public! I have seen far more amorous opposite-sex couples who are completely oblivious to the fact that there are people around them!

We are blind. We truly are. If there is love, it doesn't matter what form it comes in. If you truly love someone, same sex or no, then to hell with local prejudice, because there is no shame in loving. That's something so many people seem to forget these days.

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