MM LEE's remarks definitely
has an impact on the gay community
http://www.trevvy.com/scoops/article.php?a_id=147&c_id=3
What Makes Us Gay?
BY Team Trevvy
It may be the jeans genes that make us gay! Team Trevvy
investigates
01/05/2007
"If in fact it is true - and Ive asked doctors this - that you are
genetically born a homosexual, because thats the nature of the
genetic random transmission of genes, you cant help it. So why
should we criminalize it?"
These recent remarks by Minister Mentor Lee must have brought a
guarded smile to the faces of even the most politically jaded gay
Singaporean. After years of either ignoring the homosexual issue or
considering it to be a deviant and unhealthy lifestyle choice, the
establishment or at least the man who created it has finally
realised what we as gay people have known since we first found
ourselves attracted to the same sex you cant help it.
Remember the first time you felt attracted to another person of the
same sex and thought it might be a phase that will go away but
never did? Most gay men know from (often painful) personal
experience that their homosexual inclination was never a deliberate
choice. Yet opponents of gay rights choose to disregard our
personal experiences and continue to portray homosexuality as a
sinful choice that should be criminalised.
Cue the scramble from conservatives to disprove the notion that
homosexuality is decided from birth. Why the brouhaha? If the
government does decide that homosexuality is innate like race and
sex then there can be no justification for discrimination, not
just in the form of laws criminalising gay sex, but extending
beyond that into other social issues such as marriage and laws
protecting homosexuals from bigotry.
