It was an internal document…internal documents are internal documents. If you don’t show them to MOE, we will not know about them.
Education Minister Ng Eng Hen, when asked if his ministry was caught by surprise by the content of the instructor’s guide for the Aware programme – which, among other things, declared homosexuality as ‘perfectly normal’.
nice mice 50)
You re right of course..that is another battle ? How should it be fought?Parental control? Censorship? If you into pornhub.com you see everything. In China this site is banned. What to do..what to do???sigh sigh…
socrates, #48,
I am with you that by MOE’s action, it could be taken as an apology initially. However, with the latest comment above, it’s hard for me to hold this conclusion. The comment is like saying “don’t blame me for something which is not within my control”. I don’t want to target at the gentleman from MOE who said this. This is not the first time when something goes wrong, he tries to wash his hands completely clean (instead of either stating that more proactive measures to be taken, or a joint responsibility is involved).
On the diplomatic side, there will be people with opinion that MOE has not been on top of things. On the ugly side, they are simply bochap.
Hi Phua Chu Kang,
The problem here is AWARE and the Religious Right have different opinion of what neutral means. The Secular Camp sees neutral in the sense homosexuality and homosexual behaviour should be seen in the same light as heterosexuality and heterosexual behaviour.
The Religious Right claims that while they view the homosexuality orientation as neutral, they still call homosexual behaviour a sin. This is what they mean by “love the sinner, hate the sin”. By indicating heterosexual behaviour in positive light, it has the effect of putting down homosexual behaviour.
Singapore is a plural society and nobody is stopping the Church to organise their own Sex-Ed program during Sunday School. As long the Religious Right does not wage its “spiritual” war in MOE territory, there is no reason for Secular Camp to confront them. The onus has and always been on the Religious Right.
However, one should take not that there is nothing wrong to inform students that Section 377A criminalises homosexual behaviour because this is factual. But refraining to inform students the Government ‘s intention to not prosecute homosexual behaviour is an act of propagating a category of lies call half-truths. Question is which law takes precedence – the Law of God or the Law of the State?
What to do ? This is a “I don’t know” govt.!
We should stop wasting our time blogging.
We blog in vain cos we don’t win the other side over.
Provocative words are a waste of energy. You get frustrated and the enemy gets angry.
There is no way one camp is crossing over to the other and V V.
MOE has decided and so it is. Let’s respect authority.
All religions in harmony cos all frown on homosexuality.
Show time over, balek kampong and be useful men and women.
Stop discriminating each other.
if you don’t know who knows?
if you don’t know why get paid so much for?
bloody excuses all the time!
why do the heads of the ministry behave as such? Case in point: WKS, #1 Siam King.
sotong virus so infectious, so many kenna already. lol…. :P