FROM the perspective of former LGBTQAI+ members, it is not impossible for them to deliberately abandon their old lifestyle; it is not as if the sexual orientation is all pre-set in some form of genetic coding.
“Change is possible and I am a living example of what the Creator God has done in my life and He can do it in the lives of others,” Pastor Edmund Smith, a former gay man told FocusM. “Our role is to befriend them and let them know how God sees them.”
While for people like Smith no longer endorses the LGBT lifestyle, the permissive stance adopted by some in our society following the nationwide raid of Swatch watchmaker’s Pride Collection, is surprising.
When urging police to stop investigating a peaceful assembly which was allegedly linked to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) movement, two-term Sepang MP Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, for example, appeared to be oblivious of the social issues relating to the community.
However, to be fair to Hanipa, his statement was not about freedom for the LGBT group to practise or promote its lifestyle to others; he was merely talking about the right of the LGBT groups to hold and participate in a peaceful assembly.
“This fundamental right ought to be jealously safeguarded by the government,” he wrote. “A punishable assembly cannot be said to be a fundamental or constitutional freedom.”
Hanipa’s view represents those who also use the federal constitution to justify the sacrosanct right of all citizens, including the LGBT community.
Just for the sake of stretching the argument further, why can’t the authorities allow a parade by robbers, thieves, and perhaps, prostitutes once a year? After all, they are also fellow citizens of the country with equal rights.
Surely, when the founding fathers of this nation drafted the federal constitution, they had in mind only those causes that promote good social values be allowed for the sake of our co-existence as a multi-racial and multi-religious society.
The rule of law has to be put in place to stop drug barons to host a public exhibition to showcase their products to the Malaysian public.
While the storm has not subsided, people in Vancouver (Canada) are already doing some soul searching about their society where there is “now an ideological obsession with so-called safe supply and free drugs overshadow the desperate need for treatment, recovery and rehabilitation”.
Currently, Aaron Gunn appearing in Canada’s hottest political series, Politics Explained reiterated that Vancouver has been “beset by skyrocketing crime, violent attacks and a crippling battle with addiction that’s literally left thousands of people dead”.
“Do police have the tools they need to do their jobs? Are violent offenders being released with little to no regard for public safety?” he asked.
Charles (who prefers to go by his first name), an observer of Malaysian politics and global geopolitics, opined: “… what I see in the video on East Hastings Street in the downtown east side of Vancouver today is shocking…”
Pointing to another interview with Melissa Melendez, a former lawmaker in the state of California, US, Charles pointed out that “Malaysia’s so-called `progressives’ seem to think adopting California-style legislation is the right way to go”.
Melendez’s analysis gives us some insights on what can go wrong if Malaysians take on the path of becoming a more permissive society.
The prospects of your son declaring himself to be gay are becoming an imminent reality unless we take charge of what is happening in the country. – May 30, 2023
