It's funny how Singaporean activists like to emphasize "religious conservatives" as a side they are in conflict with - a clear sign of how their entire activity has been modelled on the USA where this distinction has stronger roots (as conservative Americans are decidedly more religious and vocal about it).
But the reality is that Singapore is a melting pot of religions and various beliefs with a few million people exhibiting varying degrees of devotion to them - and where religion, unlike in the US, is not frequently discussed (a habit stemming from strict public policy).
This is not to say that believers, or their respective religious authorities, do not voice their concerns about LGBT++ demands but even their opposition is as much a question of belief as it is of simple observation that some things are just not the same.
Personally I'm an agnostic with a rather negative relationship with the Catholic church that I was brought up as a member of, given the mess the organization has created in my home country, the greed, corruption and persistent abuses.
But I'm also what you would describe as "socially conservative" in the sense that some things just have a biological order and you can't redefine them as you please to make someone (or yourself) feel better.
Can a boy become a girl or the other way around? As we know by the sheer existence of the letter T in LGBT, gay advocates believe so and want to convince us it's the natural order of things (much like that regardless of your gender you can be sexually engaged with anybody you like and it's all just the same).
Is it really?I don't need a god to tell me that anus is different from a vagina and that anal sex between men is not really the same expression of lust and love as a "traditional" (lol, so passé) vaginal intercourse between persons of opposite sex.
As I have said many times, I don't have a problem with people of the same gender forming households or even be granted some form of civil unions that would allow them to be treated as partners in case of illness, death etc.
But at the same time I think the idea of bending fundamental education to political correctness and misleading children that hetero and homosexual relationships are just the same or, even worse (and it's where things are going) that gender itself is a social construct, so you can freely choose to be what you want to be irrespective of your genetic and chromosomal design, is absolutely reprehensible and unacceptable in any circumstances.
I don't need Bible or Quran to instruct me about this - just a simple book on human anatomy.It's not religion that self-professed "activists" are in conflict with but basic science.
