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Not conservative = Immoral

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Apparently the City Harvest Church investigation is the incident which excites the Singapore blogosphere the most. Hardly any articles on the Kallang attacks (I guess it's because it's not controversial because we can all agree to hate the perpetrators).

I was actually quite excited when I saw the large number of articles on the investigation on singaporedaily because I think the discussion on religion in Singapore society is waaay overdue. Especially when you have letters to the Today Forum like the one today which praised the selection of "conservative Christian groups" to act as vendors to schools to provide sexuality education... because they support Singapore's "conservative core values". Wonderful. And where do you suppose we got these "conservative core values" from?

The writer also defends the government's actions by saying they don't repress alternative views... only immoral ones. Nice to know that all the liberals in this country are immoral. Also, immoral views are alternative views, especially in "multi-cultural" Singapore. Immoral by whose standards? Not mine, certainly, if you're talking about what AWARE was teaching in schools.

I shall sound some ("conservative") people out on their views on the argument based on the multi-cultural Singapore thing. After all, that's one of our cherished national narratives too. Should be interesting.

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[info]notsoexpected wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2010 01:16 pm (UTC)
well i think the selection of any group with a religious inclination to teach something like sex ed is not agreeable no matter how mild they claim to be.

as for immoral, i think immoral means stuff like killing ppl which is straight off wrong. but there are actl things that are amoral, neither right nor wrong. immoral views certainly shouldn't be publicised but amoral ones i guess more space should be given?
[info]jxblack wrote:
Jun. 2nd, 2010 01:24 pm (UTC)
Hmm I guess I was more taking issue with his definition of "immoral" because someone said the govt is suppressing alternative views like "homosexuality is not evil" and he said that's more like an immoral view, rather than an alternative view.

Like... how do we "know" which views are immoral and which ones are simply amoral?
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