Lithuania has been spotlighted over controversial legislation voted in by its conservative-dominated parliament in July, which is due to come into force in March 2010 unless President Dalia Grybauskaite manages to overturn it.

This new law bars the public dissemination of information deemed favourable to homosexuality on the grounds that it could harm the mental health and physical, intellectual and moral development of minors.

‘When lawmakers adopt homophobic laws, nobody can be certain that groups of people who hate us won’t take that as a green light to move against us,’ said Mr Simonko.

Source: ST

This issue on gay rights is complicated.  Personally, I wouldn’t want literature that promote homosexual activities distributed to my children.  Why?  Well, I want them to be like me, to marry someone of the opposite sex.  It’s my preference for my children.  Period. 

I am, however, dead set against homophobic laws that breed hatred towards the gays.  We are all humans regardless of orientation and no group should ever be victims of hate crime.  Do we have such laws in Singapore?  Most (or all) gays will say that Section 377A, which criminalises sex between mutually consenting adult men, is one such legislation.  To tell you the truth, I’m not sure how a homophobic law looks like.  Perhaps laws that are reminiscent of apartheid laws?  Conversely, would its repeal be seen by hereosexuals as a ‘green light’  for homosexuals to move for more rights in society?  Probably so.

And so here we are, in a stand-off where the going concern of S377A could decide what happens next.  While I abhor S377A, a ridiculously non-enforceable piece of legislation, I know that it plays a central role in maintaining some wacked form of equilibrium in our society.  I have no solution in mind.  I just want my kids to grow up ’straight’ and to also not hate the gays.   Is that too much to ask for?

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