The writer of “Don’t let secular fundamentalism be the norm” (May 15) makes a simplistic argument for the unqualified acceptance and veracity of ideas based on religious or moral convictions in the public domain. While we can accept that religious…
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Last Friday’s letter (“Distinguish between helping gays and supporting an agenda” by Mr Leo Hee Khian) cautioned against affirming same-sex attraction. Mr Leo wrote that in Denmark, where there is same-sex marriage, “married homosexuals have been found to die at an…
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Some people, including some university student groups, have assumed that the solution to help youth with same-sex attraction is to push for the cause of affirming their alternative sexual identity at all costs. These groups include The G Spot (Yale-National University…
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I refer to the report “Varsity students to launch independent LGBT network” (May 8), in which the ambassadors for this year’s Pink Dot event were announced. Some activists and individuals from certain religious communities have since reacted harshly, to the…
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Khalil realised he was gay at 17. It was 1984, and he was living on a council estate in West London with his parents and two sisters, who originally came from Pakistan. “We had some family guests over,” he recalls,…
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