Text of his speech and others are available at the links below:
To be honest, I have not read Thio's speech and I am not going to. I get pretty frustrated and infuriated by the amount of falsehoods and bigotry she spews all the time on this issue. And unsurprisingly, her speech in parliament today followed the same trend.
Anyway, she has a history of creating lies and assumptions about the "gay agenda" and of tarring all gay men with the same brush which she no doubt obtained from the US conservatives. There is no way to talk sense to this person, much like there is no way to talk sense to an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber who is motivated by the rightness of his or her religious "calling".
Besides NMP Siew Kum Hong and PAP MP Hri Kumar, two other PAP MPs, newbie Baey Yam Keng and senior backbencher Charles Chong, also spoke in support of repealing this section. Unfortunately, I can't find the text to their speeches but here's a video clip of excerpts from it.
I am thankful for their voice of reason.
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There is no way to escape from them. Bigotry exists, regardless of its slant: racial, gender, sexual, cultural, etc.
I would say I find her pathetic, but I realise that for some Christians and churches (some, not all), there is a need to have a bogeyman, a target to be fixated on as the enemy so that a common ground can be created and fires to be fanned.
With that in place, it's easy to coerce people to your side by denouncing them as less religious/holy if they refused to follow. Fearing for their salvation, they will eagerly lap up whatever the leader will have to say. After all, the majority of humans are intellectually lazy. Easier to receive "knowledge" than to look, analyse, dissect and reflect on it. And with eternal damnation as the price for non-compliance, which religious person would dare to defy?
It's the same issue with the extreme version of Islam as expounded by Al-Qaeda and JI.