Mail from SAFE Singapore
Got this in my email today. SAFE Singapore has talks/emails etc for PLUs and their parents alike. For those who intend to 'come out' or have issues with their sexuality, this is a good contact to have. I got this from the ST a few months ago. Check them out at your own time.
Meantime this is the email :
Dear Friends
SAFE Singapore has sent out the following Statement to our Press and Media
contacts in Singapore. The Government has asked for public feedback on the
proposed changes to the Penal Code and it would be very helpful if you could
write in to the feedback unit, identifying yourself as a straight ally, at
this link http://www.reach.gov.sg/olcp/asp/ocp/ocp01d1.asp?id=3683
Thank you one and all for your continued encouragement and support!
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13 Nov 2006
To The Press
We are a group of parents, families and friends of lesbian and gay people
who believe in a society that accepts, affirms and empowers everyone to
participate fully in it regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
We write to voice our opposition to the proposed changes to the Penal Code
and in particular to the retention of s.377A which criminalizes male
same-sex acts even if conducted in private. The Ministry of Home Affairs has
come public to say they will "not be proactive in enforcing the section
against adult males engaging in consensual sex with each other in private."
Why then have a law if it is not going to be enforced? Is it not illogical
and a self-contradiction to have a law on the statute books and not enforce
it? It appears that the government wants to have its cake and eat it too --
employing gay people in civil service, welcoming foreign talent even if they
might be gay and benefiting from the contributions of intelligent & creative
gay brains while not doing anything at all to protect these same gay
people's human rights.
Are we to remain on the surface, according to MHA, "by and large, a
conservative society (where) many do not tolerate homosexuality, and
consider such acts abhorrent and deviant" while covertly wooing the gay
community's pink dollar and creative talents?
As friends and families of gay people, we are strongly against any law that
makes the people we love and respect -- our adult gay sons, brothers,
grandsons, nephews and friends, "criminals" simply by what they do in
private with another consenting adult.
Do we have an agenda? Yes indeed. Our agenda is to strive for a society
based on justice and equality, respect for individual dignity and opposed to
bigotry, homophobia or any other form of hatred and discrimination.
SAFE
Supporting, AFfirming and Empowering
Our lgbtQ friends and family
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By the way I wanna get new memory for my comp. A new mouse too. I like the optical usb Microsoft mouse. Should I just get them all from Sim Lim? I am a bit worried about getting the wrong memory though. How do I check to ensure I get the right one at the right speed? I am lousy at PC hardware... help!
Meantime this is the email :
Dear Friends
SAFE Singapore has sent out the following Statement to our Press and Media
contacts in Singapore. The Government has asked for public feedback on the
proposed changes to the Penal Code and it would be very helpful if you could
write in to the feedback unit, identifying yourself as a straight ally, at
this link http://www.reach.gov.sg/olcp/asp/ocp/ocp01d1.asp?id=3683
Thank you one and all for your continued encouragement and support!
------------------
13 Nov 2006
To The Press
We are a group of parents, families and friends of lesbian and gay people
who believe in a society that accepts, affirms and empowers everyone to
participate fully in it regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.
We write to voice our opposition to the proposed changes to the Penal Code
and in particular to the retention of s.377A which criminalizes male
same-sex acts even if conducted in private. The Ministry of Home Affairs has
come public to say they will "not be proactive in enforcing the section
against adult males engaging in consensual sex with each other in private."
Why then have a law if it is not going to be enforced? Is it not illogical
and a self-contradiction to have a law on the statute books and not enforce
it? It appears that the government wants to have its cake and eat it too --
employing gay people in civil service, welcoming foreign talent even if they
might be gay and benefiting from the contributions of intelligent & creative
gay brains while not doing anything at all to protect these same gay
people's human rights.
Are we to remain on the surface, according to MHA, "by and large, a
conservative society (where) many do not tolerate homosexuality, and
consider such acts abhorrent and deviant" while covertly wooing the gay
community's pink dollar and creative talents?
As friends and families of gay people, we are strongly against any law that
makes the people we love and respect -- our adult gay sons, brothers,
grandsons, nephews and friends, "criminals" simply by what they do in
private with another consenting adult.
Do we have an agenda? Yes indeed. Our agenda is to strive for a society
based on justice and equality, respect for individual dignity and opposed to
bigotry, homophobia or any other form of hatred and discrimination.
SAFE
Supporting, AFfirming and Empowering
Our lgbtQ friends and family
----
By the way I wanna get new memory for my comp. A new mouse too. I like the optical usb Microsoft mouse. Should I just get them all from Sim Lim? I am a bit worried about getting the wrong memory though. How do I check to ensure I get the right one at the right speed? I am lousy at PC hardware... help!