Affect05 - Jason & Demarco
STATEMENT on AFFECT05 (www.affect05.org) - 22 March 2005
Questions and Answers on AFFECT05 - 25 March 2005
AFFECT05: Interview with Madam Vee Lay, Mother of a Gay Son
- 25 March 2005
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On 24 November 2003 Focus on the Family held a seminar on homosexuality. Miak, Clarence, Stephan and Eric attended. Here's the writeup by Miak.
On 30 August 2003, the Family Life Society,
the Catholic Medical Guild and the Catholic Lawyers' Guild jointly
organised a Seminar
on Homosexuality. The Catholic Asian News also wrote an article about the seminar.
In the 7 July 2003 edition of Time magazine, Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong announced that gay people would not be discriminated in employment by the State. This provoked a strong protest from the Love Singapore Committee, made up of various Protestant churches. The Church of Our Saviour published two misleading articles on homosexuality, which led to the following comment from Kenneth Lau.
In late 2000, an ex-gay change ministry called
Choices placed a banner with the words 'Homosexuals Can Change'
on the front of Church Of Our Saviour. We drafted a letter
asking for its removal. Newsradio conducted an interview
with Kai En on 12 Feb 2001 and aired the edited
version on 2 Mar 2001.
In October 1998, not long after Safehaven started
up, Trinity Theological College organized a Symposium on Homosexuality and the Church. We met Clarence there during
the Q&A session.
Find out why Tuck Leong staged a peaceful protest
at the Cathedral in August 1998.