Sodomy is a crime in Malaysia. But afterwards so is verbal sex. And if you additionally detain as good as prison all those who put up with in verbal sex, afterwards fifteen million Malaysians would substantially be in jail. Probably all a 222 Members of Parliament will be in prison as well.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
When a Malaysian Civil Liberties Society (MCLS) was first mooted seven years ago, it was not about contesting a ubiquitous elections. It was not about fielding candidates in a elections. In fact, it was not during all about politics. It was about compelling as good as propagating a polite multitude -- which can additionally mean a magnanimous society.
However, a MCLS did not take off. So, final year, you reactivated it in a form of MCLM. Society became Movement, which is all.
But how rebuilt as good as how critical have been Malaysians about vital in a magnanimous society? Are you unequivocally magnanimous or do you speak only though still cringe during what you cruise a incorrigible lifestyle of a west?
Today (and yesterday), three events have been being held in a UK -- in London, Liverpool as good as Manchester (see a links below).
I suppose a Notting Hill Carnival in London as good as a Matthew Street Festival in Liverpool would not lift many eyebrows in Malaysia. But what about a Manchester Pride, a jubilee of lesbian, bay, bisexual as good as transgender life? Are Malaysians liberalised sufficient to tolerate something similar to that?
We can select to be magnanimous or you can sojourn conservative. And if you instruct to sojourn regressive afterwards it is maybe still as good early for polite multitude movements similar to a MCLM.
See next a statements by a British Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister as good as Opposition Leader. The! y have b een not asking a military to detain as good as assign these people for sodomy. They plainly await a Manchester Gay Pride festival.
Nick Clegg, David Camero! n as good as Ed Miliband have been not happy (at least you have not heard any rumours of them being so). But they apply oneself your right to be happy or bisexual. They dont judge you. They dont moralise. They dont ask a military to detain you as good as assign you for any crime opposite a order of nature.
Today, you have been seeing Anwar Ibrahim facing trial for what a government says is his incorrigible act of sodomy. Is Anwar happy or bisexual? There have been some who believe he is. There have been many who believe he is not.
But does it matter? We have Prime Ministers of alternative countries who have been plainly happy (you know which country you am talking about, right?). Do you find a opening of these Prime Ministers not in only since they have been gay?
Sodomy is a crime in Malaysia. But afterwards so is verbal sex. And if you additionally detain as good as prison all those who put up with in verbal sex, afterwards fifteen million Malaysians would substantially be in jail. Probably all a 222 Members of Parliament will be in prison as well.
Someone, somewhere, many, many years ago, motionless what is natural sex as good as what is unnatural sex. And, today, you have to live a lives by these norms set by someone, somewhere, many, many years ago, who suspicion he or she knows best what you should as good as should not do.
The universe has changed. Standards have changed. What might have been unnatural 100 years ago is really natural today.
You dont have to be happy or bisexual. You dont have to drink. You dont have to do anything during all which you might cruise as incorrigible or a defilement of your religious beliefs. But who have been you to tell me what you can as good as cannot do?
As prolonged as what you do does not hurt you, afterwards what you do is my complaint as good as not of your! concern . And a days of people removing arrested for celebration drink or for having a happy attribute must end. This is what a polite multitude is all about. And this is what you should be fighting for.
So, is Anwar gay? Who a ruin cares! What you do caring is: is he a good Opposition Leader? What you do caring is: will he have a good Prime Minister?
That is what w! e should worry about since a destiny of Malaysia depends upon this as good as not upon Anwars passionate preference.
Even if Anwar is not happy though he is a poor Opposition Leader as good as will have a bad Prime Minister, afterwards you must reject him for those reasons as good as not since he does not meet a passionate guidelines.
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The Notting Hill Carnival http://www.thenottinghillcarnival.com/
Matthew Street Festival: http://www.mathewstreetfestival.org/
Manchester Pride: http://www.manchesterpride.com/
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Pride as good as Politics
Manchester Pride backed by a leaders of a Conservative, Labour as good as Liberal Democrat parties:
Message of Support from Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg
It is with good wish which you congratulate Manchester Pride upon a 21st anniversary.
Over more than two decades, by celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual as good as transgender life, Manchester Pride has upheld LGBT individuals as good as organisations, as good as promoted equivalence as good as diversity. Manchester Pride is to be applauded for a work in raising recognition of a discrimination as good as difficulties affecting a lives of LGBT people as good as you would similar to to sincerely praise all those in! volved w ith Manchester Pride upon reaching this really special milestone.
Message of Support from Prime Minister, David Cameron:
I would similar to to instruct Manchester Pride a happy 21st birthday, you am certain which this years jubilee with a Best of British thesis as good as brew of sports, arts, drive-in theatre as good as parties will be a good success. you additionally wanted to congratulate everybody who has been involved in growing Manchester Pride over a yea! rs; thes e events don't organize themselves as good as require a lot of tough work, though they fool around an critical partial in a informative life of a country as good as you should be unapproachable of what you've achieved.
Events such as Pride have been not only about a fun day-out celebrating, they additionally send an critical summary as good as lift recognition of issues, they have been a really manifest sign of a need to fight discrimination as good as await any other, which is why a burial during a finish of a Big Weekend in Sackville Gardens is such a moving tribute*.
The Pride celebrations here in Manchester have been particularly successful in raising money for LGBT as good as HIV charities across a region, since 2003 scarcely 900,000 has been raised which is a terrific achievement.
So you hope you all have a good as good as protected time during Manchester Pride as good as it goes from strength to strength in a years ahead.
Message of Support from Labour Party Leader, Ed Miliband:
I wish to convey my best wishes to everybody taking partial in Manchester Pride. you enjoyed taking partial in a impetus final year as good as showing my await for equality. The popularity of eventuality shows only how far you have come in recent years in a campaign for equivalence from tackling hatred crimes through to polite partnerships.
I am unapproachable ! of a pro gress you done towards LGBT equivalence over a final decade, though there is still more to do. The key of polite partnerships was one of a many significant changes which Labour brought in, though right away it is right to look during fluctuating matrimony equivalence for those who wish it. From a diagnosis of LGBT asylum seekers through to homophobic bullying, there is still a impetus of progress forward as good as you have been with you upon it.
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