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Sunday, June 21, 2009

NARROW AND WIDE - 20 Jun 09 , 19:20 PM

Okay Terminator, I found it. Yup, the 3rd page is probably what you were getting at.

http://www.todayonline.com/Columns/Maladjusted/EDC090619-0000025/Just-an-old-fashioned-family-guy

Just an old-fashioned family guy

But how can I share your family values when we’re not, like, related?
by Phin Wong
Updated 08:52 AM Jun 19, 2009

From page 3...It may just be a film or teachers’ guide today, but what happens if a vocal segment of society insists that evolution be dropped in school curriculum in favour of creationism? Or that Shakespeare be removed from classrooms because of the Bard’s penchant for cross-dressing? Surely politicking science and literature goes against some parents’ family values, too? So, who has the right of way and who has to filter out?

Back to “liberal” parents and would-be parents like Sham. Perhaps it is simply a matter of semantics. The dictionary definition of “liberal” commonly includes phrases like “free from prejudice or bigotry” and “open-minded or tolerant”. Only someone in favour of bigotry and intolerance would be opposed to that.

But, in this silly worldwide fight between “liberals” and “conservatives”, the word has taken on extra connotations of being radical or immoral (once again - immoral to whom?).

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Like "LEE"s answer to "CW" about the use of the word immoral.

LEE
19 Jun 09 , 05:20 AM

On the issue of IMMORALITY
As much as I wish we didnt have to use that term, I am afraid this is where we will have to disagree. Homosexuality involves constant acts of anal sex. This is something that is not natural nor healthy. As such I am sorry that these acts will continue to be an issue of immorality for many of us. But remember my earlier post that we are not into gay bashing. As mentioned in my earlier reply to you, many of us interact and get along with our gay friends even though we disagree on certain acts. Asking us to say its not immoral is like asking us to say smoking is healthy. If sm

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