Singapore Decriminalises Gay Sex

So the prime minister of Singapore is speaking right now as I record this. He's already given a speech in Malay and in Mandarin, and now he's doing it. Okay. So that video is already obsolete because he finished his speech, and he just declared that they're gonna repeal the three seven seven a. I was saying in the video, get ready.

He's gonna repeal the three seven seven a in Singapore, but I thought it was gonna be later. I didn't think it was gonna be now because he had earlier talked about how delicate it was how delicate it was and how they were gonna have to do this and approach this matter with a great deal of, you know, tact and carefully and all that kind of stuff, and then then he just drops the hammer. It wasn't particularly delicate. He just takes it upon himself. We're gonna repeal three seven seven a because I've just decided.

Obviously, this is a huge mistake for Singapore. But, you know, Singapore has to do what their benefactors tell them to do. This is the problem when you have a country that has no resources. You are inevitably the servant of many masters. You're not independent.

I mean, Singapore's Independence Day is an is a day on which they inevitably and unavoidably, entered into servitude to multiple masters, mostly western. So they have to do this. If there was a consensus in the population as he said there was, then this is something that you could pass through the parliament. But they can't because there isn't actually majority support for this, for repeal of three seven seven But anyway, they're doing it, and it's a mistake. And so I would like to just warn and caution in Malaysia that this the idea of this is to one of the functions of Singapore in this region is to present a western face in Nusantara in this region, to contrast it with conservative Muslim countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei.

To make these countries, the Muslim countries, look backwards and look regressive, you know, unadvanced and unsophisticated and undeveloped and so on. That's one of their functions. And to create a tension between what what the government accepts and what religion prohibits. They wanna create a tension between those two things so that people will incline towards whatever that appears to be a consensus of power, to be okay, especially young people. They'll just go along with it because it's the thing to do.

In my opinion, repealing three seven seven a in Singapore, is against Singapore's own constitution, requires them to uphold, promote, safeguard, and protect the, culture, religious rights, and interests of the Malays, the indigenous population. This certainly doesn't do that. But anyway, they've done what they've done, so now it's upon Malaysia and Indonesia and Brunei to ensure that the same thing doesn't get repeated in our Muslim countries. In my opinion, the conservative voices in Singapore were too complacent, were too inactive, and believed that three seven seven a would never be repealed. I have said before that that was naive, and there have been many signs leading up to this that indicated that the government was now preparing to repeal three seven seven eight.

For example, when they said that, that the the government had met with unnamed religious leaders who said that they were fine with, repeal. I don't know who they talked to, but that certainly isn't actually the consensus of religious groups in Singapore, but whatever anyway. Again, they've done what they've done. It's a huge mistake for Singapore. I mean, talked about, three seven seven eight in Singapore being a, what they called, gatekeeper law.

They said they weren't going to enforce it, but we need to keep it on the books, Basically, so that we don't normalize homosexuality, and this is true. You're normalizing it now. And once you've normalized it, you can't put that genie back in the bottle. It's going to proceed the same way that it has proceeded in every other country that has followed this path, which is into chaos. But they have to make their decisions based on what their Western international benefactors approve.

Malaysia doesn't have to do that. Indonesia doesn't have to do that. Brunei doesn't have to do that. So I really hope that in in Malaysia and in Indonesia and in Brunei, they can stand up for what's morally correct and what is in the best interests of their public health, in the best interests of their societies, and resist what will inevitably be a considerable amount of pressure for them to also decriminalize, gay sex.