Recently our minister mentor
had a lot of comments about homosexuality. In the event that
homosexuality become legalised in Singapore, what should be the
church's stance on this?
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So, is it useless then? No, I don't think it's useless. The Church
says: I proclaim that this is bad. But if you do it, you will know
that you are doing something which somebody in high authority have
thought over and think it's wrong. You can overrule that, this is
your decision, you do it. But I think in the same way we have to
decide on behalf of society what is the long-term effect of this,
and if you prohibit it will it work, and if it doesn't work and it
is flouted, does it do harm? Which is better? - to let it run
freely or say, "No", have it surreptitiously flouted at the margins
- you've got to weigh the two odds. But, I mean you take this
business of homosexuality. It raises tempers all over the
world, and even in America. If in fact it is true, and I have asked
doctors this, that you are genetically born a homosexual because
that's the nature of the genetic random transmission of genes, you
can't help it. So why should we criminalise it? But there's such a
strong inhibition in all societies. Christianity, Islam, even the
Hindu, Chinese societies and we are now confronted with a
persisting aberration. But is it an aberration? It's a genetic
variation. So what do we do? I think we pragmatically adjust, carry
our people... don't upset them and suddenly upset their sense of
propriety and right and wrong, but at the same time let's not go
around like this moral police do in Malaysia, barging into people's
rooms and say "khalwat". That's not our business. So, you have to
take a practical, pragmatic approach to what I see is an inevitable
force of time and circumstance.
