Sunday, September 30, 2018

Not if but when 377A will be repealed, says Singapore movement against anti-gay law

Leaders of the “Ready4Repeal” petition are urging gay and straight people alike to speak up and encourage MPs to support their cause.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/ready4repeal-section-377a-townhall-anti-gay-law-10773704
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Ricky Lim
Maybe one way to resolve this 377A dispute once and for all - is for the coming General Election - other than voting for the MP to represent our ward, voters are also ask to vote whether to support keeping or repealing this 377A.

In other words, voters will get 2 voting sheet :-
(1) 1st voting sheet - to vote for which MP we want
(2) 2nd voting sheet - to vote to keep or repeal 377A


This will deal with this issue once and for all - and also will not need to spend additional cost and wasting taxpayers' money to hold a referendum on this trivial but highly emotionally charge issue that keep bugging the people. 

The number of vote cast to keep or repeal - will be based on the simple majority vote ie. 50.1% and above votes will determine the winner.
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Ricky Lim
By the way I don't believe non-sectarian Buddhist Fellowship stance - is representing the Singapore Buddhist Federation stance who is representing the entire Buddhist Community in Singapore.

So don't assume the Buddhist is supporting repealing the 377A.
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Eddie Ong
Ricky Lim that's right.
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Alvin Leong
Sorry, these people, if they don't get the answer that they want, will keep making more noise until the question gets asked again and again. Just look at the remoaners in the Brexit vote.
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Ricky Lim
Alvin Leong - I have sympathy for this group of people.
But there must be a sense of what is morally right and wrong.
This is my view on Section 377A :-

Ricky Lim
Guess Singapore should see Section 377A with 2 lens :-
(1) Explicit lens
(2) Implicit lens

Explicit lens - is to keep Section 377A - to give a sense of what is morally right - Nature that provide for creation of humans is through sexual union of a male and a female to produce offsprings and sustain the human civilisation.

Implicit lens - is to recognise that certain people suffered from illness and cannot behave like normal humans of a man or a woman to engage in normal sexual activity for the reproduction of offsprings.
And thus should not enforce Section 377A on them if they carried out their activity quietly in private.
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Ricky Lim
(1) The Explicit lens (is the Wisdom lens) - to prevent the invocation of Universal Law of Karma - to instill what is morally, nature right.

(2) The Implicit lens (is the Compassion lens) - to sympathise with the illness that some man and women inherit - and not prosecute them for which they have no control of.
But if treatment has become available, help must be granted to coax them to get treatment to heal the deviant tendency and get well
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Ricky Lim
(1) The Explicit lens - will deter normal human of man and woman from committing abnormal sexual activities.
This will prevent heterosexual male and female from experimenting homosexual and lesbian activities - moving into deviant anti-nature behavior.
This will be in line with other sexual deviant behavior - by preventing moral decadence that go against Nature.

(2) The Implicit lens - certify that certain individual man and woman indeed has illness in sexual orientation by medical profession.
Regular treatment is also implied to help such individual in mental and physical healing - that hopefully one day, they will be able to get well.
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Ricky Lim

It is in this light that I urge Buddhist Community to stand neutral on this issue.

Buddhism emphasize 3 main roots in the attainment of Enlightenment of Nirvana (condensed version of 8 Noble Path) :-
(1) Morality - abstain and achieve equilibrium of all sensual desires (notably sexual desire of all forms much less deviant sexual desire).

(2) Right Concentration 
(定力)of Samadhi Jhana - for without the roots of Morality - attainment of Samadhi Jhana is not possible.

(3) Right Mindfulness 
(念力)of Nirvana - for without both roots of Morality and Samadhi Jhana - attainment of Nirvana is not possible.

Hence Wisdom must not be a "Misplaced Wisdom".
Universal Compassion must not be a "Misplaced Compassion".

Note :- 3 outcomes of Nirvana Enlightenment are :-
(1) No-self (or Selfless) 无我,大舍。
(2) Universal Compassion 大慈,大悲。
(3) Panna Wisdom 般若智慧。
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Ricky Lim
In short, Buddhism teachings emphasize 慈悲 (大爱)(Universal Compassion - "Big Love") - (brotherly love or sister love) and should not look into people's bedroom (不因该理别人的房事).

Thus, I urge Buddhism Community - to stand "neutral" in this issue and not take sides.
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Wu Jian Hao
No. Why should we put other more important matters below certain foreign-backed agenda to promote rectum as a sexual organ?
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Ricky Lim
Wu Jian Hao - Now there are a couple of high placed government officials openly support the resolution of this trivial, but highly emotionally charged issue that have been bugging Singaporeans for many years.

So if there are no compelling fair resolution method to seal this issue - how to keep this issue from re-surfacing time and again -
 and distract the Nation from resolving more important economic, social and security issues?
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