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03 Jun 09 , 11:57 AM
I have to copy this here from "Come, Let Us Reason". Very Good!
A Lesson from The Frog
If a frog were to be thrown into a pot of boiling water, it would propel itself out of the boiling water instantaneously, or it would have been killed in no time. If the same frog were to be put into a pot of water at room temperature, and the water slowly brought to boil. The frog would frolick in the water, and be boiled alive.
This analogy very aptly describes us in this very rapidly changing society of Singapore in the area of morality. At one time the issues of homosexuality and lesbianism are like hot water that the society shunned like the plaque. Today the plague is the sanctity of marriage and the practice of a wholesome family-oriented heterosexuality.
We pride ourselves as being educated people, rational, open and perfectly capable of doing what is best for us, and society. We believe that our nature has evolved to such a level that nothing can go wrong with us, and that we can determine our own destiny. This thought has become central in individuals and groups, be they government, civic or religious.
The frog has a characteristic that is completely in it’s nature. It is the characteristic of being cold-blooded. Its body can adapt to the external environment so much so that as the temperature of the water rises from 30 to 60, to 80, and to 100 degrees Celsius, it just accommodates, and accommodates, and accommodates till it is cooked. We are like the frog.
We have accommodated, and accommodated and have become “cooked” and no more sensitive to abominations to our fellows. We call our ability to accommodate tolerance, non-discrimination and inclusivity. We pride ourselves with having a ‘higher-order’ psyche, a sacrosanct openness and a conscience to boot. Alas, could it be that even our conscience is seared? To anyone or any group who dares say that we are wrong, we do not care to tackle the issues, we would just resort to name-calling and attack the person like ferocious dogs. In time, they will cower and we will have our ways.
We have become a very accommodating society, often to our detriment. We only have to look at the USA and how it had evolved in immorality. If there is anything we need not learn from the American infidels, it is to ‘progress’ in the way they had ‘progressed’.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Topic - Media Objectivity
Hi All,
This is was a posting from LIFE Correspondent John Lui "Get Your Values Out of my face". Although Lui's article was not printed on the paper, it was posted on the ST Online Blog under ST LIFE CORRESPONDENT.
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John Lui
Life! Correspondent
Get your values out of my face
May 08, 2009 Friday, 11:42 AM
John Lui shares his views on the Aware saga.
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"GET your values out of my elite uncaring face"
If there is one lesson that the Aware saga has proven yet again, it is that parents have an inflated sense of their own worth in society.
I am not married and do not have children and it has irritated me for a long time that mothers and fathers like to excuse their incredibly selfish behaviour by saying "it's for the sake of the kids".
The group of pro-values parents who object to a factual and comprehensive sex eduation programme should be reminded that their little darlings belong to the same society that I do.
If these little angels as a result of ignorant fornication foist little bundles of joy on society and its taxpayers, I for one will be more than a little displeased.
In my eyes, having teenagers with fully functioning reproductive organs and not being able to control them is similar to owning a pit bull with big teeth and not putting it on a leash. Both creatures are hazards to other people.
If you tell me that your pit bull's fondness for sinking his fangs into people is "a private matter between a dog and his owner", I would tell you to grow a brain, you selfish, ignorant fool.
And if you campaign to keep leashes off dangerous dogs, then you are more than a fool, you are a menace to society.
Your right to keep your pet unrestrained ends where the skin of my leg begins.
Your rights to keep your child ignorant about sex ends where my tax dollars start to fund public medical programmes for STDs, juvenile delinquency schemes and prisons for people screwed up by being born to poor teenage mothers.
In the pages of The Straits Times over the last four weeks, we have seen upper-middle class professionals, driven by private religious impulses, strive to change public education policy.
People from well-off, educated families are the ones who are statistically the least likely to suffer from the problems of teen pregnancy and STDs. Yet they feel driven to restrict sex education for the people who need it most: Teens from lower-income families.
But it makes sense. After all, the harm that these well-meaning people could cause will never affect them directly. They get to feel holy but will never experience the misery born of their actions.
Singapore was born of pragmatism. Legalised prostitution protects women in the sex trade from pimps. No-one likes prostitution but greater misery comes from driving it underground.
Teenage sexual behaviour is a public health issue, like swine flu or dengue fever.
The next time someone tells me that sex education is a private matter between a parent and his child, I will tell him that in return, I will make open containers filled with stagnant water a private matter between myself and the stuff I keep on my property.
This is was a posting from LIFE Correspondent John Lui "Get Your Values Out of my face". Although Lui's article was not printed on the paper, it was posted on the ST Online Blog under ST LIFE CORRESPONDENT.
-------------------------------------
John Lui
Life! Correspondent
Get your values out of my face
May 08, 2009 Friday, 11:42 AM
John Lui shares his views on the Aware saga.
________________________________________
"GET your values out of my elite uncaring face"
If there is one lesson that the Aware saga has proven yet again, it is that parents have an inflated sense of their own worth in society.
I am not married and do not have children and it has irritated me for a long time that mothers and fathers like to excuse their incredibly selfish behaviour by saying "it's for the sake of the kids".
The group of pro-values parents who object to a factual and comprehensive sex eduation programme should be reminded that their little darlings belong to the same society that I do.
If these little angels as a result of ignorant fornication foist little bundles of joy on society and its taxpayers, I for one will be more than a little displeased.
In my eyes, having teenagers with fully functioning reproductive organs and not being able to control them is similar to owning a pit bull with big teeth and not putting it on a leash. Both creatures are hazards to other people.
If you tell me that your pit bull's fondness for sinking his fangs into people is "a private matter between a dog and his owner", I would tell you to grow a brain, you selfish, ignorant fool.
And if you campaign to keep leashes off dangerous dogs, then you are more than a fool, you are a menace to society.
Your right to keep your pet unrestrained ends where the skin of my leg begins.
Your rights to keep your child ignorant about sex ends where my tax dollars start to fund public medical programmes for STDs, juvenile delinquency schemes and prisons for people screwed up by being born to poor teenage mothers.
In the pages of The Straits Times over the last four weeks, we have seen upper-middle class professionals, driven by private religious impulses, strive to change public education policy.
People from well-off, educated families are the ones who are statistically the least likely to suffer from the problems of teen pregnancy and STDs. Yet they feel driven to restrict sex education for the people who need it most: Teens from lower-income families.
But it makes sense. After all, the harm that these well-meaning people could cause will never affect them directly. They get to feel holy but will never experience the misery born of their actions.
Singapore was born of pragmatism. Legalised prostitution protects women in the sex trade from pimps. No-one likes prostitution but greater misery comes from driving it underground.
Teenage sexual behaviour is a public health issue, like swine flu or dengue fever.
The next time someone tells me that sex education is a private matter between a parent and his child, I will tell him that in return, I will make open containers filled with stagnant water a private matter between myself and the stuff I keep on my property.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Testimony on Suzanne Chin
Below is a testimony of God's grace and goodness in my sister Suzanne's life. Letter from Dr Alan Chin. Feel free to forward this to all your friends
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Dr Alan Chin
10-Jun-09
Testimony on Suzanne Chin
On the morning of Monday, 20 of April 2009, I received a call from my brother–in-law John that my sister Suzanne had suffered a cardiac arrest and was warded in ICU in hospital in Hong Kong. This came at the worst time possible as I was going through a time of tribulation and crisis in my own life. My wife Josie had just been appointed as the President of AWARE and when she most needed my support, I had to be away! (Remember the A.W.A.R.E. saga?)
My mother and I flew up that very afternoon to Hong Kong. We arrived that night and headed straight to Canossa Hospital where Suzanne was warded. We met John and my brother David who had flown in earlier. John recounted what had happened that morning.
As per her usual morning routine, after sending her kids to school, she went for her morning jog with her dog. However, after around ten minutes, she decided to turn back as she was feeling tired. She had a bath and went to bed. As John noticed that she looked unwell and was slow in her speech, he called for the ambulance. Within 10-15 minutes she was on her way to hospital, still conscious.
Unfortunately on arrival at 8:38am, she lapsed into unconsciousness with an unrecordable blood pressure. The doctors commenced resuscitation which lasted about 2 hours. ECG on admission showed narrow complex bradycardia. Intra venous adrenaline was administered and she developed a ventricular tachycardia. She was defibrillated which resulted in sinus rhythm. She was intubated and started on IV dopamine and adrenaline.
She was transferred to ICU after she had been stabilized.
MRI of Brain showed:
- Tiny T2W dark signal in Right cerebellar hemisphere, likely a nonspecific focus due to a tiny calcification or tiny focus of old No other intracranial abnormality.
- Trace fluid signal in posterior wall of NP.
- ECG immediate post resuscitation on 20.4.2009 – SR, ST depression in praecordial leads
CXR report:
- Interstitial lung markings, right lung pleural fluid, slightly more confluent shadowing RUZ, but may have some pneumonic changes.
In ICU, she developed diabetes insipidus – marked urine output (serum osmolarity 325 urine osmolarity 129) responded to DDAVP.
When I saw Suzanne in ICU, she did not look good. She was on a ventilator; her pupils were 4mm fixed and dilated. Her limbs were flaccid. The respiratory physician advised that the prognosis was very poor with evidence of brain stem death and pituitary gland failure. The room temperature in ICU was kept low to slow down the metabolic processes.
I spent the night in hospital praying and interceding. I proclaimed Psalm118:17 over Suzanne that she shall not die but live to declare the works of the Lord.
An echocardiogram done the next morning on Tue, 21 April 2009 by the cardiologist, Dr. David Ho showed:
- Moderate Aortic Regurgitation with global left ventricular dysfunction and moderate to severe global hypokinesia.
- Cardiac valves showed no abnormal thickening.
- Tri-leaflet aortic valve
- LVES 4.89cm LVED 5.35cm
- EF 19% by M mode
- LA 2.72cm
Dr Ho suggested a diagnosis of acute aortic valve prolapse leading to cardiac arrest.
That afternoon, her condition remained unchanged. The temperature in the ICU was now turned up in a not-too-subtle hint that the doctors had given up.
The respiratory physician again advised that there was no improvement and confirmed that Suzanne had brain stem death (BSD). It is a term equated with death to describe a person on life-support system when faced with a decision whether or not to switch off the ventilator or to harvest organs for organ transplant. She advised John to consider switching off the ventilator as Suzanne was now dead and there was no hope of recovery. She added in medical history there were no cases of anybody recovering from BSD.
I contacted my friends in Singapore to pray for Suzanne.
We requested for a second opinion from a neurologist who examined her that afternoon. Her pupils were fixed and dilated. Vestibulo-ocular reflex was negative. She had a negative gag and cough reflex. There was no pain reflex in response to deep pressure over sternum, fingers, and eyebrow. She was flaccid, a-reflexic and there was no plantar response. His diagnosis was also that of brain stem death.
That evening, Suzanne looked dead. She was cold and clammy; facial discoloration had set in, especially under her eyes. There was also a smell of death over her. That evening, her children, Kim and Ian saw her for the first time after her collapse. The whole family was distraught. Everyone was grieving for Suzanne.
Later that night, I called Josie to update her on Suzanne’s condition. She spoke to John and prayed with him. She received the word "resurrection" and told John that God is our Healer and that He would resurrect all her brain cells.
Even as I prayed that night, I asked Father God where was Suzanne ? He answered that she was with Him. I then asked whether she would be coming back. He said yes! I asked when but there was no answer. I then asked for a sign by Wednesday as I had scheduled to return to Singapore that afternoon. Comforted I went to sleep early that night.
Things started to turn around on Wednesday. Early that morning, the nurses noticed slight movement as they were sucking phlegm from her intubation tube. John excitedly called from hospital that early morning saying Suzanne had opened her eyes for the briefest moment several times!
We hurried down to the hospital. As we called her name there was response with twitching of her lips and movement of her eyebrows. She opened her eyes several times! We were all greatly encouraged.
Suzanne was then reassessed by the neurologist. When he called her name, there was no response. When he asked her to move her arm, again there was no response. However, when I called out her name, she opened her eyes. She also moved her fingers when I asked her to move her hand. Her pupils were still fixed and dilated with a negative doll’s eye reflex. There was grimacing of her face in response to deep pressure for pain over her fingers and sternum.
Strangely the neurologist still advised John that these signs were just autonomic responses. She also warned John not to raise false hopes of recovery as Suzanne had BSD!
At around noon, the respiratory physician noted there were further signs of recovery. Suzanne had started triggering the ventilator to breathe, about 5-10% of the breaths. By the time I left the hospital for the airport at about 1:30pm, she was initiating 100% of her breathing.
By that evening, there was movement of all her four limbs; with increasing episodes of eye movements. Her pupils were no longer fixed and dilated and she had regained her pupillary reflexes.
However she developed a fever. Her total white blood count was 34,500. Chest X-Ray showed lobar pneumonia, with bilateral infiltrates indicative of adult respiratory distress syndrome. Remarkably all these settled down within 24 hours.
On Thursday 23 April, while being reassessed by her neurologist, John asked Suzanne to nod her head if she understood him. She did so. He then asked her to nod her head twice as the doctor was skeptical. Again she did so.
By Friday 24 April, Suzanne was fully conscious and able to recognize all who visited her.
Echo of heart: Ejection Fraction had improved from 19% to 43%. (Her EF was back to normal by Monday 27 April).
Suzanne was ex-tubated on Saturday, 25 April. She was able to talk shortly after that. Neurological examination revealed full and total recovery with no neurological deficits.
I spoke to her that afternoon over the phone just before I testified in church of God’s power and amazing grace in bringing her back from the dead.
On Sunday 26 April morning, Suzanne was up and about and was able to shower herself. She even asked John to bring her facial wash and moisturizer.
She was discharged the following Tuesday.
As I shared her amazing testimony in Church Of Our Savior again, on Sunday 26 April morning, a reporter from ‘The Newpaper’ was also present. Intending to hear Pastor Derek's sermon, she had no choice but to sit through my sharing of this miracle. It was then reported on Monday 27 April The Newpaper’s Front page!
Up till today doctors are not able to ascertain what happened to Suzanne as all the tests have been negative. She is fully recovered and coming back to Singapore permanently this end June 2009 after spending 15 years in Hong Kong.
Suzanne remembers that while she was in coma, she dreamt that she was pinned down on the floor of an apartment she had earlier visited in Pandan Valley Singapore. She tried to get up but someone (she described it as an evil presence) prevented her from doing so.
She has been touched and changed by her experience and walking closer to God.
I hope that Suzanne’s miraculous resurrection will be a source of comfort, strength and encouragement of the reality of God’s amazing grace, mercy and goodness.
Revelation 19:10b states: For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Let him or her who needs a miracle from God, claim one.
Dr Alan Chin
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Dr Alan Chin
10-Jun-09
Testimony on Suzanne Chin
On the morning of Monday, 20 of April 2009, I received a call from my brother–in-law John that my sister Suzanne had suffered a cardiac arrest and was warded in ICU in hospital in Hong Kong. This came at the worst time possible as I was going through a time of tribulation and crisis in my own life. My wife Josie had just been appointed as the President of AWARE and when she most needed my support, I had to be away! (Remember the A.W.A.R.E. saga?)
My mother and I flew up that very afternoon to Hong Kong. We arrived that night and headed straight to Canossa Hospital where Suzanne was warded. We met John and my brother David who had flown in earlier. John recounted what had happened that morning.
As per her usual morning routine, after sending her kids to school, she went for her morning jog with her dog. However, after around ten minutes, she decided to turn back as she was feeling tired. She had a bath and went to bed. As John noticed that she looked unwell and was slow in her speech, he called for the ambulance. Within 10-15 minutes she was on her way to hospital, still conscious.
Unfortunately on arrival at 8:38am, she lapsed into unconsciousness with an unrecordable blood pressure. The doctors commenced resuscitation which lasted about 2 hours. ECG on admission showed narrow complex bradycardia. Intra venous adrenaline was administered and she developed a ventricular tachycardia. She was defibrillated which resulted in sinus rhythm. She was intubated and started on IV dopamine and adrenaline.
She was transferred to ICU after she had been stabilized.
MRI of Brain showed:
- Tiny T2W dark signal in Right cerebellar hemisphere, likely a nonspecific focus due to a tiny calcification or tiny focus of old No other intracranial abnormality.
- Trace fluid signal in posterior wall of NP.
- ECG immediate post resuscitation on 20.4.2009 – SR, ST depression in praecordial leads
CXR report:
- Interstitial lung markings, right lung pleural fluid, slightly more confluent shadowing RUZ, but may have some pneumonic changes.
In ICU, she developed diabetes insipidus – marked urine output (serum osmolarity 325 urine osmolarity 129) responded to DDAVP.
When I saw Suzanne in ICU, she did not look good. She was on a ventilator; her pupils were 4mm fixed and dilated. Her limbs were flaccid. The respiratory physician advised that the prognosis was very poor with evidence of brain stem death and pituitary gland failure. The room temperature in ICU was kept low to slow down the metabolic processes.
I spent the night in hospital praying and interceding. I proclaimed Psalm118:17 over Suzanne that she shall not die but live to declare the works of the Lord.
An echocardiogram done the next morning on Tue, 21 April 2009 by the cardiologist, Dr. David Ho showed:
- Moderate Aortic Regurgitation with global left ventricular dysfunction and moderate to severe global hypokinesia.
- Cardiac valves showed no abnormal thickening.
- Tri-leaflet aortic valve
- LVES 4.89cm LVED 5.35cm
- EF 19% by M mode
- LA 2.72cm
Dr Ho suggested a diagnosis of acute aortic valve prolapse leading to cardiac arrest.
That afternoon, her condition remained unchanged. The temperature in the ICU was now turned up in a not-too-subtle hint that the doctors had given up.
The respiratory physician again advised that there was no improvement and confirmed that Suzanne had brain stem death (BSD). It is a term equated with death to describe a person on life-support system when faced with a decision whether or not to switch off the ventilator or to harvest organs for organ transplant. She advised John to consider switching off the ventilator as Suzanne was now dead and there was no hope of recovery. She added in medical history there were no cases of anybody recovering from BSD.
I contacted my friends in Singapore to pray for Suzanne.
We requested for a second opinion from a neurologist who examined her that afternoon. Her pupils were fixed and dilated. Vestibulo-ocular reflex was negative. She had a negative gag and cough reflex. There was no pain reflex in response to deep pressure over sternum, fingers, and eyebrow. She was flaccid, a-reflexic and there was no plantar response. His diagnosis was also that of brain stem death.
That evening, Suzanne looked dead. She was cold and clammy; facial discoloration had set in, especially under her eyes. There was also a smell of death over her. That evening, her children, Kim and Ian saw her for the first time after her collapse. The whole family was distraught. Everyone was grieving for Suzanne.
Later that night, I called Josie to update her on Suzanne’s condition. She spoke to John and prayed with him. She received the word "resurrection" and told John that God is our Healer and that He would resurrect all her brain cells.
Even as I prayed that night, I asked Father God where was Suzanne ? He answered that she was with Him. I then asked whether she would be coming back. He said yes! I asked when but there was no answer. I then asked for a sign by Wednesday as I had scheduled to return to Singapore that afternoon. Comforted I went to sleep early that night.
Things started to turn around on Wednesday. Early that morning, the nurses noticed slight movement as they were sucking phlegm from her intubation tube. John excitedly called from hospital that early morning saying Suzanne had opened her eyes for the briefest moment several times!
We hurried down to the hospital. As we called her name there was response with twitching of her lips and movement of her eyebrows. She opened her eyes several times! We were all greatly encouraged.
Suzanne was then reassessed by the neurologist. When he called her name, there was no response. When he asked her to move her arm, again there was no response. However, when I called out her name, she opened her eyes. She also moved her fingers when I asked her to move her hand. Her pupils were still fixed and dilated with a negative doll’s eye reflex. There was grimacing of her face in response to deep pressure for pain over her fingers and sternum.
Strangely the neurologist still advised John that these signs were just autonomic responses. She also warned John not to raise false hopes of recovery as Suzanne had BSD!
At around noon, the respiratory physician noted there were further signs of recovery. Suzanne had started triggering the ventilator to breathe, about 5-10% of the breaths. By the time I left the hospital for the airport at about 1:30pm, she was initiating 100% of her breathing.
By that evening, there was movement of all her four limbs; with increasing episodes of eye movements. Her pupils were no longer fixed and dilated and she had regained her pupillary reflexes.
However she developed a fever. Her total white blood count was 34,500. Chest X-Ray showed lobar pneumonia, with bilateral infiltrates indicative of adult respiratory distress syndrome. Remarkably all these settled down within 24 hours.
On Thursday 23 April, while being reassessed by her neurologist, John asked Suzanne to nod her head if she understood him. She did so. He then asked her to nod her head twice as the doctor was skeptical. Again she did so.
By Friday 24 April, Suzanne was fully conscious and able to recognize all who visited her.
Echo of heart: Ejection Fraction had improved from 19% to 43%. (Her EF was back to normal by Monday 27 April).
Suzanne was ex-tubated on Saturday, 25 April. She was able to talk shortly after that. Neurological examination revealed full and total recovery with no neurological deficits.
I spoke to her that afternoon over the phone just before I testified in church of God’s power and amazing grace in bringing her back from the dead.
On Sunday 26 April morning, Suzanne was up and about and was able to shower herself. She even asked John to bring her facial wash and moisturizer.
She was discharged the following Tuesday.
As I shared her amazing testimony in Church Of Our Savior again, on Sunday 26 April morning, a reporter from ‘The Newpaper’ was also present. Intending to hear Pastor Derek's sermon, she had no choice but to sit through my sharing of this miracle. It was then reported on Monday 27 April The Newpaper’s Front page!
Up till today doctors are not able to ascertain what happened to Suzanne as all the tests have been negative. She is fully recovered and coming back to Singapore permanently this end June 2009 after spending 15 years in Hong Kong.
Suzanne remembers that while she was in coma, she dreamt that she was pinned down on the floor of an apartment she had earlier visited in Pandan Valley Singapore. She tried to get up but someone (she described it as an evil presence) prevented her from doing so.
She has been touched and changed by her experience and walking closer to God.
I hope that Suzanne’s miraculous resurrection will be a source of comfort, strength and encouragement of the reality of God’s amazing grace, mercy and goodness.
Revelation 19:10b states: For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Let him or her who needs a miracle from God, claim one.
Dr Alan Chin
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Objectivity In Media Reporting
Even Straits Times with huge resources and many years of experienced reporters has kept quiet
23 Jun 09 , 17:30 PM
ha ha, more likely that gay activists cannot rebut against "handful" of upset parents. Even Straits Times with huge resources and many years of experienced reporters has kept quiet against "handful" angry parents here. At least now people know that capable people are not only in Straits Times only.
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One-sided story
22 Jun 09 , 22:27 PM
We are surrounded by Muslim Neighbours (Countries). Our very own National Anthem is in Malay. Isn't it insulting to the Muslim Community if we were to open up to liberalism, promoting homosexual activities? Our PM is definitely right to stand firm on this issue to remain a conservative society, unless we be a laughing stock by our very own neighbours.
23 Jun 09 , 17:30 PM
ha ha, more likely that gay activists cannot rebut against "handful" of upset parents. Even Straits Times with huge resources and many years of experienced reporters has kept quiet against "handful" angry parents here. At least now people know that capable people are not only in Straits Times only.
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One-sided story
22 Jun 09 , 22:27 PM
We are surrounded by Muslim Neighbours (Countries). Our very own National Anthem is in Malay. Isn't it insulting to the Muslim Community if we were to open up to liberalism, promoting homosexual activities? Our PM is definitely right to stand firm on this issue to remain a conservative society, unless we be a laughing stock by our very own neighbours.
Another Concern Citizen 13 Jun 09 , 10:20 AM
REACH Thread - Objectivity In Media Reporting
Hi All, I strongly recommend this blog site, just in case there are still some people that have yet to fully understand or seeks more information regarding Aware devious CSE program, which you do not hear or hardly hear from the media. In fact it was thru this blog that I am able to get a copy of the CSE trainer manual and also came to know REACH web site.
Go to this site: http://tampinescourt.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to read more on past articles/comments concerning Aware & CSE for more understanding.
By the way, just thinking...if only we can let the 7200 over concern people that petition to MOE to remove the CSE program to be aware of REACH web site,to know that finally their opinions can be heard in REACH and not shut out by the media. REACH is a great web site unlike the media with its censorship and bias reporting, as it allows your voice to be heard. Fortunately, we still have REACH and some public spirit blog sites that enables us to access informations that are kept out from the media,so that we can be more discerning and able to make better judgements on our own with more balance informations available.
Hi All, I strongly recommend this blog site, just in case there are still some people that have yet to fully understand or seeks more information regarding Aware devious CSE program, which you do not hear or hardly hear from the media. In fact it was thru this blog that I am able to get a copy of the CSE trainer manual and also came to know REACH web site.
Go to this site: http://tampinescourt.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to read more on past articles/comments concerning Aware & CSE for more understanding.
By the way, just thinking...if only we can let the 7200 over concern people that petition to MOE to remove the CSE program to be aware of REACH web site,to know that finally their opinions can be heard in REACH and not shut out by the media. REACH is a great web site unlike the media with its censorship and bias reporting, as it allows your voice to be heard. Fortunately, we still have REACH and some public spirit blog sites that enables us to access informations that are kept out from the media,so that we can be more discerning and able to make better judgements on our own with more balance informations available.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Video Interview By CNA With AWARE ON CSE
Dear All
Good if all of you get some ideas on what AWARE said of their CSE and what it's about on CNA.
Scroll to the 2 videos you need to watch on the Talking Point programme below are:
SEXUALITY EDUCATION AND
TEEN PREGNANCY AND ABORTION
Click on the article titled above: "Video Interview By CNA With AWARE ON CSE" and watch the videos between CNA & AWARE" to view. Or you may go to below-mentioned site:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/tp/archive.htm#4
Good if all of you get some ideas on what AWARE said of their CSE and what it's about on CNA.
Scroll to the 2 videos you need to watch on the Talking Point programme below are:
SEXUALITY EDUCATION AND
TEEN PREGNANCY AND ABORTION
Click on the article titled above: "Video Interview By CNA With AWARE ON CSE" and watch the videos between CNA & AWARE" to view. Or you may go to below-mentioned site:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/tp/archive.htm#4
Sunday, June 21, 2009
THINK AGAIN - 21 Jun 09 , 15:21 PM
Those who read ST article “COMING OUT IN CHINA”. Do you realize how the media sensationalized the issue as if there’s such a large majority that’s beginning to accept homosexual acts?
Quote from ST: “”In a survey of 400 people across Chinese cities last year, sociologist Li Yinhe, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found what she termed a 'quite high' level of tolerance of gays - 'possibly because China has no widely held religion and hence no religion-based opposition to homosexuality like in the West', she wrote on her blog””Unquote.
MY VIEW: China has over 1.3 BILLION people. The survey is from only 400 people across the Chinese cities. Yet they actually quote this sociologist as saying that this is a “quite high” level of tolerance? 400 surveyed out of 1.30 BILLION PEOPLE is “quite high”?
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http://www.straitstimes.com/Asia/China/Story/STIStory_392792.html?sunwMethod=GET
June 20, 2009
MEMO FROM BEIJING
'Coming out' in China By Sim Chi Yin, China Correspondent
While homosexuality is still largely a social taboo, Chinese society is slowly opening up .
A crowd of 200 gay, straight, Chinese and expatriate guests gathered ..at the Songzhuang Art District on the city's outskirts for what organisers quietly hailed as a breakthrough for gays in China, where homosexuality was delisted as a 'mental illness' only in 2001.. Unquote
MY VIEW: The media loves to say homosexuality was delisted as a mental disorder. But they fail to report another side of it: Homosexual Activists Intimidate American Psychiatric Association into Removing Homosexuality from List of Disorders.
Read it on:
http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/homosexual-activists-intimidate-american-psychiatric-association-into-removing-homosexuality-from-list-of-disorders/#more-20
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MY VIEW: The media loves to say homosexuality was delisted as a mental disorder. But they fail to report another side of it: Homosexual Activists Intimidate American Psychiatric Association into Removing Homosexuality from List of Disorders.
Read it on:
http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/homosexual-activists-intimidate-american-psychiatric-association-into-removing-homosexuality-from-list-of-disorders/#more-20
Quote from ST: “”In a survey of 400 people across Chinese cities last year, sociologist Li Yinhe, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found what she termed a 'quite high' level of tolerance of gays - 'possibly because China has no widely held religion and hence no religion-based opposition to homosexuality like in the West', she wrote on her blog””Unquote.
MY VIEW: China has over 1.3 BILLION people. The survey is from only 400 people across the Chinese cities. Yet they actually quote this sociologist as saying that this is a “quite high” level of tolerance? 400 surveyed out of 1.30 BILLION PEOPLE is “quite high”?
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http://www.straitstimes.com/Asia/China/Story/STIStory_392792.html?sunwMethod=GET
June 20, 2009
MEMO FROM BEIJING
'Coming out' in China By Sim Chi Yin, China Correspondent
While homosexuality is still largely a social taboo, Chinese society is slowly opening up .
A crowd of 200 gay, straight, Chinese and expatriate guests gathered ..at the Songzhuang Art District on the city's outskirts for what organisers quietly hailed as a breakthrough for gays in China, where homosexuality was delisted as a 'mental illness' only in 2001.. Unquote
MY VIEW: The media loves to say homosexuality was delisted as a mental disorder. But they fail to report another side of it: Homosexual Activists Intimidate American Psychiatric Association into Removing Homosexuality from List of Disorders.
Read it on:
http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/homosexual-activists-intimidate-american-psychiatric-association-into-removing-homosexuality-from-list-of-disorders/#more-20
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MY VIEW: The media loves to say homosexuality was delisted as a mental disorder. But they fail to report another side of it: Homosexual Activists Intimidate American Psychiatric Association into Removing Homosexuality from List of Disorders.
Read it on:
http://conservativecolloquium.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/homosexual-activists-intimidate-american-psychiatric-association-into-removing-homosexuality-from-list-of-disorders/#more-20
LEE - 21 Jun 09 , 14:33 PM
For "yeah right" who obviously has no idea about what I spoke about on the site Journalism.sg. You said "boy another anonymous person in the journalism.sg article."
Here is some background about the people on their journalism site. Its good that there are still a remnant out there who share the same views as those on this thread regarding media coverage of Aware saga.
http://journalism.sg/perspectives/
Editor Cherian George (cherian@journalism.sg) Cherian is an assistant professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The research and writing team comprises journalism students at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore:
This site was launched in June 2007 to serve anyone interested in the news media in Singapore, whether a practising journalist, researcher, teacher, student, concerned citizen, media activist or policy maker. To facilitate dialogue among these various constituencies, the articles and links published here are deliberately diverse in their orientations. They range from activists' critiques, academic analyses and professionals' perspectives to government officials' points of view.
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Seems the anonymous one hiding is the writer posting under "Yeah right" and not the ones on journalissm.sg
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Here is some background about the people on their journalism site. Its good that there are still a remnant out there who share the same views as those on this thread regarding media coverage of Aware saga.
http://journalism.sg/perspectives/
Editor Cherian George (cherian@journalism.sg) Cherian is an assistant professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
The research and writing team comprises journalism students at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore:
This site was launched in June 2007 to serve anyone interested in the news media in Singapore, whether a practising journalist, researcher, teacher, student, concerned citizen, media activist or policy maker. To facilitate dialogue among these various constituencies, the articles and links published here are deliberately diverse in their orientations. They range from activists' critiques, academic analyses and professionals' perspectives to government officials' points of view.
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Seems the anonymous one hiding is the writer posting under "Yeah right" and not the ones on journalissm.sg
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LEE - 21 Jun 09 , 14:19 PM
Thank you "good seed", that was very assuring.
To those who may be discouraged or wonder why MICA or the Govt doesnt seem to be doing anything about the pro gay activists stand by our media.
Have faith that if you are writing to our leaders, you are being heard. It could be that the Govt or MICA is "silent" because they dont want to give the LGBT bullies in the West the smugness of saying ST and company are puppets of the Govt. If the Govt comes out to publicly shame the Press and Media, it may backfire.
My advice is continue doing what we have been doing, let our voices be heard loud and clear and dont fret about ST and their arrogance. Let the public and leaders know the truth and inform them about what the media will not write about. That's important than waiting for apologies that wont come.
To those who may be discouraged or wonder why MICA or the Govt doesnt seem to be doing anything about the pro gay activists stand by our media.
Have faith that if you are writing to our leaders, you are being heard. It could be that the Govt or MICA is "silent" because they dont want to give the LGBT bullies in the West the smugness of saying ST and company are puppets of the Govt. If the Govt comes out to publicly shame the Press and Media, it may backfire.
My advice is continue doing what we have been doing, let our voices be heard loud and clear and dont fret about ST and their arrogance. Let the public and leaders know the truth and inform them about what the media will not write about. That's important than waiting for apologies that wont come.
a good seed - 21 Jun 09 , 13:08 PM
limited its present abilities by the
limitations of its past.
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life
holding onto a belief that we cannot do something
simply because we failed at it once before? How
many of us refuse to attempt something new and
challenging because of our so called MINDSET?
Your attempt may fail, but never fail to make
attempt............................
And CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT THE FALSE BOUNDARIES
LIMITATIONS CREATED BY THE PAST.............."
ST and CNA are now tools of the LGBTs and their activists/lobbyists. They blame Josie and her group of good Christians and played the religious issue (when none exists).
On CNA's primetime news a fortnight ago (to be exact on Tuesday, 2 June 2009), the pair of newsreaders when exchanging small talk on US President Obama's pending vivit later that day to the Saudi kingdom showed an interview with a Saudi gentleman who said ".. it is not what he (Obama) says but what he does (that matters).." Immediately, a picture of 'Obama' in the form of an Indonesian orang utan was shown to viewers swinging across a tree-top. Are these newsmen trying to embrass our PM and his good people by insulting the US President and the American people?
Like ST, CNA saw it fit not to apologise to the US President and the American people for their backers and the very same group now in control of many of the states in US.
How many of us were aware (more likely unaware) that when our PM H S Lee visited US recently, during a meeting of US businessmen, sourcing for new enterprise and business opportunities for these would be businessmen in Singapore, the LGBTs and their activists during question and answer, quizzed our PM on why his government allowed the "hijacking" (same lingo being used here by ST and CNA) by Josie and her group of Aware then. This clearly shows the immense power of the LGBTs in the States.
Their Singapore's side must have relayed to the US counterpart of the Aware
limitations of its past.
Like the elephants, how many of us go through life
holding onto a belief that we cannot do something
simply because we failed at it once before? How
many of us refuse to attempt something new and
challenging because of our so called MINDSET?
Your attempt may fail, but never fail to make
attempt............................
And CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT THE FALSE BOUNDARIES
LIMITATIONS CREATED BY THE PAST.............."
ST and CNA are now tools of the LGBTs and their activists/lobbyists. They blame Josie and her group of good Christians and played the religious issue (when none exists).
On CNA's primetime news a fortnight ago (to be exact on Tuesday, 2 June 2009), the pair of newsreaders when exchanging small talk on US President Obama's pending vivit later that day to the Saudi kingdom showed an interview with a Saudi gentleman who said ".. it is not what he (Obama) says but what he does (that matters).." Immediately, a picture of 'Obama' in the form of an Indonesian orang utan was shown to viewers swinging across a tree-top. Are these newsmen trying to embrass our PM and his good people by insulting the US President and the American people?
Like ST, CNA saw it fit not to apologise to the US President and the American people for their backers and the very same group now in control of many of the states in US.
How many of us were aware (more likely unaware) that when our PM H S Lee visited US recently, during a meeting of US businessmen, sourcing for new enterprise and business opportunities for these would be businessmen in Singapore, the LGBTs and their activists during question and answer, quizzed our PM on why his government allowed the "hijacking" (same lingo being used here by ST and CNA) by Josie and her group of Aware then. This clearly shows the immense power of the LGBTs in the States.
Their Singapore's side must have relayed to the US counterpart of the Aware
Noor's Comment To REACH - FYI
21 Jun 09 , 09:53 AM
Until we hear what MICA has to say about comments on this thread, surely this thread should not be archived?
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http://app.reach.gov.sg/reach/YourSay/YourDiscussionCorner/tabid/117/ptid/414/page/4/totrecs/31/threadid/1802/forumtype/posts/Default.aspx
Noor ""said :
I am new to REACH having started only in May 2009. It is disconcerting for users to give feedback without direct replies from the relevant goverment agencies. I see not much progress on this matter since Feb 2009
To raise the level of discourse and the volume of viewership of REACH portal, govt must go online and reply say by 3 days. Otherwise netizens are no different from people who gather at coffeshop - ie REACH will be like an online coffeshop if there is no participation from govt""
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Reply from Reach:
Dear Noor (I am Guest),
Thank you for your comments. With regard to responses from government agencies, you may be pleased to know that various agencies have in fact, responded on our discussion forum. The links to some of these responses are as follows:
CPF – Li / HDB - Wet Market Bid/ PUB - PUB rates went up again ? /NEA – PUB rates went up again ? / MOE- How can MOE work with parents on sex education?
NPARKS - Islandwide Park Connectors - to include bicycles ?
We agree with your observation that communication needs to be two-way. In this regard, please be assured that the Government is committed to two-way e-engagement, and REACH will, together with MICA, continue to work with Government ministries and agencies on e-engagement. Over time, we are confident we will see more Ministries and agencies e-engaging and responding on the REACH website.
We will nevertheless, bear your concerns and comments in mind as we seek to continue to improve on our e-engagement efforts. Thank you once again for your comments and we look forward to your continued participation on the REACH forums."
Regards, Ling (REACH Admin)
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So please keep this thread active until there is truly objectivity in media coverage.
No response?
Until we hear what MICA has to say about comments on this thread, surely this thread should not be archived?
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http://app.reach.gov.sg/reach/YourSay/YourDiscussionCorner/tabid/117/ptid/414/page/4/totrecs/31/threadid/1802/forumtype/posts/Default.aspx
Noor ""said :
I am new to REACH having started only in May 2009. It is disconcerting for users to give feedback without direct replies from the relevant goverment agencies. I see not much progress on this matter since Feb 2009
To raise the level of discourse and the volume of viewership of REACH portal, govt must go online and reply say by 3 days. Otherwise netizens are no different from people who gather at coffeshop - ie REACH will be like an online coffeshop if there is no participation from govt""
--------
Reply from Reach:
Dear Noor (I am Guest),
Thank you for your comments. With regard to responses from government agencies, you may be pleased to know that various agencies have in fact, responded on our discussion forum. The links to some of these responses are as follows:
CPF – Li / HDB - Wet Market Bid/ PUB - PUB rates went up again ? /NEA – PUB rates went up again ? / MOE- How can MOE work with parents on sex education?
NPARKS - Islandwide Park Connectors - to include bicycles ?
We agree with your observation that communication needs to be two-way. In this regard, please be assured that the Government is committed to two-way e-engagement, and REACH will, together with MICA, continue to work with Government ministries and agencies on e-engagement. Over time, we are confident we will see more Ministries and agencies e-engaging and responding on the REACH website.
We will nevertheless, bear your concerns and comments in mind as we seek to continue to improve on our e-engagement efforts. Thank you once again for your comments and we look forward to your continued participation on the REACH forums."
Regards, Ling (REACH Admin)
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So please keep this thread active until there is truly objectivity in media coverage.
No response?
Terminator - 20 Jun 09 , 23:27 PM
Dear all
The article is found in Fri edition not sat. Title: Just an old-fashioned family guy. Can find this online too on Today website.
I wonder why the liberals in our media can mock the conservatives so openly and yet when the conservatives try to voice their concerns and opinions the government says that we need to be more tolerant. Haven't the conservatives been very tolerant? Why are the liberals getting away with all these free for all statements in the press.
The press always features articles that are pro-liberals and hardly articles that promote the conservatives. They always say such a such a country or countries are already doing it. There are also countries that aren't doing it and yet they never write about it. For e.g they will say homosexuality is allowed or practised in such countries. However, there are many countries that do not allow the practice of homosexuality especially in Muslim countries.
The article is found in Fri edition not sat. Title: Just an old-fashioned family guy. Can find this online too on Today website.
I wonder why the liberals in our media can mock the conservatives so openly and yet when the conservatives try to voice their concerns and opinions the government says that we need to be more tolerant. Haven't the conservatives been very tolerant? Why are the liberals getting away with all these free for all statements in the press.
The press always features articles that are pro-liberals and hardly articles that promote the conservatives. They always say such a such a country or countries are already doing it. There are also countries that aren't doing it and yet they never write about it. For e.g they will say homosexuality is allowed or practised in such countries. However, there are many countries that do not allow the practice of homosexuality especially in Muslim countries.
NARROW AND WIDE - 20 Jun 09 , 19:08 PM
Hi "Terminator",
Could you post the online link and title of article by Phin that you mentioned?
These days the reporters are from that generation when its cool to be neutral and "broad". Thats the direction the world is taking. Remember we can choose. Glad to know majority here are taking the one that leads to life.
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Could you post the online link and title of article by Phin that you mentioned?
These days the reporters are from that generation when its cool to be neutral and "broad". Thats the direction the world is taking. Remember we can choose. Glad to know majority here are taking the one that leads to life.
The Narrow and Wide Gates
13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
concerned - 20 Jun 09 , 16:29 PM
Dear CW, must say that I do appreciate your postings and wish that there are more like you...we can agree to disagree and in doing so, helping each other to increase our own understanding of perspectives and views.
Dear "Too concerned to remain silent anymore" - appreciate your postings concerning choice of being gay. Clarified my own misconception that they choose to be...lack of sensitivity on my part...need to do more homework.
To LEE, P and others - Wow! About blog, alternative email and all. Thankful for all of you. Still collating and forwarding your helpful inputs. It's not about just starting well, but continuing to act on our convictions and finishing well. Thanks for setting the example and pace.
Dear "Too concerned to remain silent anymore" - appreciate your postings concerning choice of being gay. Clarified my own misconception that they choose to be...lack of sensitivity on my part...need to do more homework.
To LEE, P and others - Wow! About blog, alternative email and all. Thankful for all of you. Still collating and forwarding your helpful inputs. It's not about just starting well, but continuing to act on our convictions and finishing well. Thanks for setting the example and pace.
LEE 20 Jun 09 , 16:00 PM
Hi friends,
We are not alone in this issue on the lack of objectivity in media coverage. Read the articles posted on this website called "Journalism.sg"
http://journalism.sg/2009/05/17/straits-times-aware/
We are not alone in this issue on the lack of objectivity in media coverage. Read the articles posted on this website called "Journalism.sg"
http://journalism.sg/2009/05/17/straits-times-aware/
THINK AGAIN - 20 Jun 09 , 14:03 PM
Anyone who thinks ST is going to stop being a platform for the LGBT’s, THINK AGAIN.
Read today’s article under ASIA. Look at what our national media is doing. No doubt just reporting “facts” but again, in a bid to push the pro gay agenda to public space.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Asia/China/Story/STIStory_392792.html
Home > Asia > China > Story
June 20, 2009
MEMO FROM BEIJING
'Coming out' in China
While homosexuality is still largely a social taboo, Chinese society is slowly opening up
By Sim Chi Yin, China Correspondent
Excerpts:
In a survey of 400 people across Chinese cities last year, sociologist Li Yinhe, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found what she termed a 'quite high' level of tolerance of gays - 'possibly because China has no widely held religion and hence no religion-based opposition to homosexuality like in the West'.
A crowd of 200 gay, straight, Chinese and expatriate guests gathered over soft drinks and beer at the Songzhuang Art District on the city's outskirts for what organisers quietly hailed as a breakthrough for gays in China, where homosexuality was delisted as a 'mental illness' only in 2001.
In Shanghai, the country's first week-long Pride Festival reached its climax last Saturday with drag shows, a 'hot body' contest and a symbolic gay wedding ceremony.
Mardi Gras it was not, but after the police stopped three of the 10 planned events, the rest went off largely without a hitch, said Shanghai-based organiser Hannah Miller, a school teacher.
Slowly but surely, in a gradually liberalising social environment, ever more 'lalas' and 'comrades' are coming out.
Gays are also becoming more visible in the media here. Last week, the English-language China Daily ran a front-page story and an editorial touting the Pride Festival in Shanghai as a symbol of a progressive China. Even the usually staid Xinhua state news agency carried a lengthy feature story detailing Beijing's gay scene just before the Olympics Games.
And last week's issue of the widely read Southern Weekend newspaper splashed the story of a pair of Guangdong university students 'coming out' - complete with a photo of the men clasping hands.
Dr He Xiaopei, executive director of the independent Pink Space Sexuality Research Centre in Beijing, said: 'With more activities and media coverage, gays here can be seen more readily and people then realise 'Oh, they are just ordinary people'. All that helps with social acceptance.'
In a survey of 400 people across Chinese cities last year, sociologist Li Yinhe, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found what she termed a 'quite high' level of tolerance of gays - 'possibly because China has no widely held religion and hence no religion-based opposition to homosexuality like in the West', she wrote on her blog.
That most of China's gay men dutifully marry also means a group of women, now known as tong qi (or wives of comrades), are unwittingly exposed to the risk of Aids - not to mention, emotionally and sexually neglected.
Gay women like 'Amanda', 26, an attractive media professional, simply lead a double life.
To her mother, aunts and colleagues, she is an eligible but picky woman who has been match-made, without success, about 50 times.
'It's the only way not to hurt everyone's feelings,' she said.
Likewise for divorced civil servant 'W', 39, who had been married for 11 years before falling for a woman five years ago.
She has not told her family she is gay but is hoping to have a child with her partner.
Since it is illegal for China's hospitals to artificially inseminate an unwed woman, 'W' will resort to a do-it-yourself procedure with donated sperm.
The most difficult part for her will come after she becomes pregnant.
'I will have to tell my family that I'm gay. And then I will have to marry some guy - just to get the right paperwork for my child to be registered and to go to school - and then divorce him.'
Read today’s article under ASIA. Look at what our national media is doing. No doubt just reporting “facts” but again, in a bid to push the pro gay agenda to public space.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Asia/China/Story/STIStory_392792.html
Home > Asia > China > Story
June 20, 2009
MEMO FROM BEIJING
'Coming out' in China
While homosexuality is still largely a social taboo, Chinese society is slowly opening up
By Sim Chi Yin, China Correspondent
Excerpts:
In a survey of 400 people across Chinese cities last year, sociologist Li Yinhe, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found what she termed a 'quite high' level of tolerance of gays - 'possibly because China has no widely held religion and hence no religion-based opposition to homosexuality like in the West'.
A crowd of 200 gay, straight, Chinese and expatriate guests gathered over soft drinks and beer at the Songzhuang Art District on the city's outskirts for what organisers quietly hailed as a breakthrough for gays in China, where homosexuality was delisted as a 'mental illness' only in 2001.
In Shanghai, the country's first week-long Pride Festival reached its climax last Saturday with drag shows, a 'hot body' contest and a symbolic gay wedding ceremony.
Mardi Gras it was not, but after the police stopped three of the 10 planned events, the rest went off largely without a hitch, said Shanghai-based organiser Hannah Miller, a school teacher.
Slowly but surely, in a gradually liberalising social environment, ever more 'lalas' and 'comrades' are coming out.
Gays are also becoming more visible in the media here. Last week, the English-language China Daily ran a front-page story and an editorial touting the Pride Festival in Shanghai as a symbol of a progressive China. Even the usually staid Xinhua state news agency carried a lengthy feature story detailing Beijing's gay scene just before the Olympics Games.
And last week's issue of the widely read Southern Weekend newspaper splashed the story of a pair of Guangdong university students 'coming out' - complete with a photo of the men clasping hands.
Dr He Xiaopei, executive director of the independent Pink Space Sexuality Research Centre in Beijing, said: 'With more activities and media coverage, gays here can be seen more readily and people then realise 'Oh, they are just ordinary people'. All that helps with social acceptance.'
In a survey of 400 people across Chinese cities last year, sociologist Li Yinhe, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, found what she termed a 'quite high' level of tolerance of gays - 'possibly because China has no widely held religion and hence no religion-based opposition to homosexuality like in the West', she wrote on her blog.
That most of China's gay men dutifully marry also means a group of women, now known as tong qi (or wives of comrades), are unwittingly exposed to the risk of Aids - not to mention, emotionally and sexually neglected.
Gay women like 'Amanda', 26, an attractive media professional, simply lead a double life.
To her mother, aunts and colleagues, she is an eligible but picky woman who has been match-made, without success, about 50 times.
'It's the only way not to hurt everyone's feelings,' she said.
Likewise for divorced civil servant 'W', 39, who had been married for 11 years before falling for a woman five years ago.
She has not told her family she is gay but is hoping to have a child with her partner.
Since it is illegal for China's hospitals to artificially inseminate an unwed woman, 'W' will resort to a do-it-yourself procedure with donated sperm.
The most difficult part for her will come after she becomes pregnant.
'I will have to tell my family that I'm gay. And then I will have to marry some guy - just to get the right paperwork for my child to be registered and to go to school - and then divorce him.'
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Tread wisely - 20 Jun 09 , 11:12 AM
REACH - OBJECTIVITY IN MEDIA REPORTING
Dear "All",
If we are hoping for this thread to remain active, I think its important we minimise calls to lobby against other groups.
This space must continue to be open to everyone, all views for and against the issues concerned. This is a Government portal and we must respect that.
We can continue to post our "homework" and articles on this thread. All the information has been very helpful and we really appreciate the hard work put in by everybody. We can give information on how and where to write to the Government about what is close to our hearts.
However, calls for lobbying against activist with opposing views can be done on the new "home" set up by "P" rather than here. Tread wisely.
A new "home" has been set up through "P"
http://citizenswatch88.blogspot.com/
you can send emails to
Email : citizens_watch88@yahoo.com.sg
(see Silent Majority, "P" and other postings here on this new "home").
Dear "All",
If we are hoping for this thread to remain active, I think its important we minimise calls to lobby against other groups.
This space must continue to be open to everyone, all views for and against the issues concerned. This is a Government portal and we must respect that.
We can continue to post our "homework" and articles on this thread. All the information has been very helpful and we really appreciate the hard work put in by everybody. We can give information on how and where to write to the Government about what is close to our hearts.
However, calls for lobbying against activist with opposing views can be done on the new "home" set up by "P" rather than here. Tread wisely.
A new "home" has been set up through "P"
http://citizenswatch88.blogspot.com/
you can send emails to
Email : citizens_watch88@yahoo.com.sg
(see Silent Majority, "P" and other postings here on this new "home").
Silent Majority - 20 Jun 09 , 10:25 AM
REACH - OBJECTIVITY IN MEDIA REPORTING
Too true, LEE,
Let me remind all concerned that the NMP issue is VERY relevant to our 'concerns on sexuality issues" & alternative lifestyles being imposed by the activists and their fundies.
ST and other media will not publish our comments.
You get a nominee Loretta Chen in, who has stated her stance, then, we are in trouble.
She even went so far as to join the PAP Youth wing to connect and lay the foundation, with those in power or our future leaders.
BE INFORMED! BE NOISY! STAY ON COURSE & UNITED!
Regards
Too true, LEE,
Let me remind all concerned that the NMP issue is VERY relevant to our 'concerns on sexuality issues" & alternative lifestyles being imposed by the activists and their fundies.
ST and other media will not publish our comments.
You get a nominee Loretta Chen in, who has stated her stance, then, we are in trouble.
She even went so far as to join the PAP Youth wing to connect and lay the foundation, with those in power or our future leaders.
BE INFORMED! BE NOISY! STAY ON COURSE & UNITED!
Regards
LEE - 20 Jun 09 , 10:17 AM
REACH - OBJECTIVITY IN MEDIA REPORTING
Many of our "participants" may be away because its the school holidays. Thats why I was concerned they may not return in time to catch the new postings. If only Reach would take this into consideration before archiving thread so soon.
There is still so much active contributions on this thread and I hope they will reconsider.
(See my appeal letter and follow suit)
Many of our "participants" may be away because its the school holidays. Thats why I was concerned they may not return in time to catch the new postings. If only Reach would take this into consideration before archiving thread so soon.
There is still so much active contributions on this thread and I hope they will reconsider.
(See my appeal letter and follow suit)
LEE - 20 Jun 09 , 10:13 AM
REACH - OBJECTIVITY IN MEDIA REPORTING
Dear "Too Concerned to Remain Silent"
Thank you for taking the time to share the important information from Mike Haley's book with us on this thread.
May I suggest :
1) Share your information on the Sexuality Programme thread as well
2) Is Mike Haley's book available in our local bookstores? It should be sent to MOE, MM, PM and The Cabinet. We should also buy a copy for reference.
Information on The Cabinet appointments are can be read on
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/AboutTheCabinet/index.htm
3)Important to send your feedback here to "The Cabinet" through Reach and other ministers and MPs.
Also please read my appeal letter to Ms Khor to keep this thread and the one of Sexuality Programme alive. Hope you will write in as well.
Thanks
Dear "Too Concerned to Remain Silent"
Thank you for taking the time to share the important information from Mike Haley's book with us on this thread.
May I suggest :
1) Share your information on the Sexuality Programme thread as well
2) Is Mike Haley's book available in our local bookstores? It should be sent to MOE, MM, PM and The Cabinet. We should also buy a copy for reference.
Information on The Cabinet appointments are can be read on
http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/AboutTheCabinet/index.htm
3)Important to send your feedback here to "The Cabinet" through Reach and other ministers and MPs.
Also please read my appeal letter to Ms Khor to keep this thread and the one of Sexuality Programme alive. Hope you will write in as well.
Thanks
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