Salt * Wet * Fish

I always feel that hatred and anger never solve any problems. Just look at what is happening to the world around us and we can see that it had never worked. Neither should we, in the midst of championing for a cause or becoming part of the cause, be blinded by anger and our own frustration.

Sometimes it is really hard to resist when the opponents continually pound your trenches with hate, lies and dishonesty… we are too conditioned by movies (in general) to take on the bad guys with an equal force, because they really deserves it. And as such, sometimes we are encouraged to take on the opponents with the same hatred and anger, we feel that its justified, its right and its fair. There are hardly any alternative models to tackle such issue, yes, there are few, but most of them are overwhelmed by the Hollywood kill-joy lone hero.

Anger and hatred is not what I want to associate gay activism here with and I hope it never goes the way like some more militant activist movements in other parts of the world.

As such, I was never agreeable to what Alfian, no matter how I hated what she had to say. To be honest, I really don’t think his email is that bad because this is really how bitching works.

In fact, some people commented that such tactics are really quite common in other more democratic countries. Well, just because such behaviors is common in those country, does it make it a correct thing to do? A beneficial thing to do? As we progress the democracies like those countries, should we encourage such outbursts?

Personally, I don’t feel that such outburst would be beneficial to anyone, it probably made it worst for us who are trying to gain some respect and acceptance and equal treatment.

If we are concerned about an equality of freedom to speak, then the likes of Ms. Thio should be allowed to say her piece. But we should also have the allowance to rebut her, to be sarcastic about it or maybe even draw up some humorous rebuttal.

If we act like the opponent with its hatred and anger, than we are no different from them, really

Then you have these reports about the threatening letter to Ms. Thio. If this were really true, than I will say go catch the culprit. No one should be threatening her life or family members. How would you like it if it was one of your family members who was threatened? It is simply not in anyone’s interest to act this way towards another human being.

Having said that, everyone seems to have been drawn to a strange fact that the same letter was sent to a journalist. What is the motive of sending the same letter to that journalist? Who benefits from having this letter exposed? Not those in the pro-repeal camp for sure, but then it could well be a stupid, anger and brainless pro-repeal supporter.

Now, some of you would have read about this march that was supposed to be organized called Walk for Jesus? Funny enough, the marchers were asked to wear white… ala Klux Klax Klan, I think.

I don’t really know if this march actually happened, because I didn’t hear any reports on it nor seen any pictures. However, it infuriated many people, because they thought that since the pink picnic and pink run was banned, why should the pro-intolerance camp be allowed to marched?

I think that equality should apply to everyone. Unfortunately, some gay people seems to think that it only applies to them. I feel that if we wanted to the rights to do a pink picnic or organize a run without state intervention, I think we should extend that right to everyone else, even if its a march against us. This should be the spirit of equality that I hope to achieve, not a hypocritical self-centered equality for us only.

Just because we are denied those rights, I don’t feel that that we should denied others from having those rights. If anything, I will be upfront supporting their right to protest against the repeal of 377a. I will not be part of the march, I may even ridicule it, but I will support their rights to march, all the way.