Good point from Molly
Published September 20th, 2007 in HomosexualityMolly wrote a good piece on coming out:
Coming Out Entry
We hear lots of speeches daily, sometimes in an office.Miss Lim: My boyfriend is coming to pick me up later.
Mr. Sim: My wife is on maternity leave.
Mrs. Loh: Cannot afford to have baby lah. Baby Bonus also no use.
Miss Soh: We’re applying for a HDB flate first. I don’t want to stay with his parents.”
Reading around blogs, Molly sees a number comments about Otto Fong’s coming out. It has been said that there was no need for Fong to come out. Just as straights do not go “I am straight,” gays do not have to say, “I am gay.”
It is true. There is no necessity for gays to come out if they do not wish to. It is a choice that has to be respected.
But it is not true that straights don’t come out. Straights come out all the time. Many times a day, even. When Miss Lim said “My boyfriend is coming to pick me up later,” we know immediately that she is attached. To a male. Some might speculate that Miss Lim is bisexual, but essetially people are made aware of her heterosexual relationship.
http://yamizi.blogspot.com/2007/10/be-man.html
“To me it appears that being a gay buddhist is like a buddhist who works as a butcher.”
Hi yamizi,
Thanks for the comments, well, a butcher can be a buddhists and a buddhist can be a butcher. To each his/her own path. Originally Buddha did not start buddhism anyway.
Metta
Kelvin Wong