Few days ago, another news burning up the Twitter and Facebook feeds when the Education Ministry came up with the guidelines to identify LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgenders). Among the so called 'guidelines' to identify them are: men wearing V-neck shirts, bright colored clothing and carrying women's bag, and yes, having a muscular body.
I wonder are these guys gay?
Oh, how about guys in sarong? =p
I remember back then during my school times I had few guy friends at school or observed some guys at school who are the 'soft' type. They love to mingle with girls and girls don't mind to have them in their group. Try a 'normal' boy...sure kena one lah...back then..no one cares. School doesn't mind or giving 'counselling' to these kids (non that I heard of back then) because, well...as long as they are academically good - what else is matters. I had girl friends that loves having short hair, act like a boy, hates wearing anything that looks 'girlie'. They fought like boys (yep, I punched and slap few boys during my school time too) - but no one makes it into headlines - none that I knew of.
So fast forward to 2012...now that it has started in the school. Imagine the trauma of certain kids will be...now that with these so called 'guidelines', some kids called for 'counselling' as such to 'fix' them. Did it came across to these 'smart people's' minds that these kids are now put into unnecessary stress, being taunted at school, an easy target of bullies?
Came in general, every country has these LGBT group. They were labelled as 'disease'. Some so called 'religious' crusaders went on about saying that 'it's against God' and started to recite this and that from the Holy Scriptures (I am saying it ALL, not just one particular group). True, no religion allows it. Morally, it's wrong. We knew that. But...who are we to judge them? Who are we to discriminate them?
I would say, if we wanted to look at the 'moral' and 'social' issues, we had other problems in hand - racism, corruption, illegal immigrants flooding our country - especially the uncontrolled number of them multiplying in Sabah, baby dumping, baby killings, drugs, teens ran away from home, our kids missing in front of our lawn, ladies became drug mules, scammers online, rapist goes free because they had 'clean record' or 'bright future'..the list goes on and on and on...
But no...some people choose to pick just one category of people to sacrifice. If you questioning my stand about them - I don't agree on these kind of way of life, but I don't agree that we should cast them aside. Even some 'smart people' think LGBT should migrate to the West because this is NOT our way of life should be. Dear sir, just because they don't live they 'way of your life' doesn't mean they had no right to live in this country because this land ain't belong to you alone.
Who are we to judge who is going to go heaven or hell after this?
So...think again, who are we to tell them to leave?
The LGBT's are someone's son, someone's daughter. Someday, it could be one of your kin. What did they ever did to disturb your life then?
If they being LGBT is an eyesore to your individual preferences - the problem lies within yourself, your heart that's filled with ego, hatred, prejudice and no difference than a racist.
Hating them won't make them low. It's the haters did.
And oh...just so to tell...those guidelines are not correct at all. It takes more than that to identify who is actually LGBT. Guess some people don't have any fashion sense at all. =p