Some choice examples:
“judicial said on 21 Feb, 2010 Report as offensive
i don kmow why some stupid ppl support gays…being gay is sin…. all gays must die… I HATE GAYS”

“kensankah said on 22 Feb, 2010 Report as offensive
If all gays or lesbians are normal and consider natural then mankind population had already ended thousands years ago!! It is totally unacceptable by ALL religions !!! Those gays or lesbain pls wake up your Fxxking ideals !If your mother father is gay or les, you bastxxd will not be typing here !!!”

“Gaostriker said on 22 Feb, 2010 Report as offensive
Gays have no future…its disgusting when I think about two people of the same gender doing the “couple thing”…….eeeeeeeee totally disgusting!!!! Hey GAYS!!!! READ THIS GAYS HAVE NO FUTURE!!!! Pui!”

These are the hidden sentiments of the supporters of Rony Tan, brought to the surface by this maelstrom. I refuse to act like an ostrich and bury my head in the sand, as Rex had suggested, and wait for witch-hunters to knock on my door one day and realise that the world is filled my condemners and haters. I refuse to sit and wait for a world where entrapment of gay people are the norm and men are jailed for having sex with other men on a routine basis and people believe that sexual preference is a ‘choice’ and submit themselves to conversion therapy to ‘turn’ straight.

As I read these comments, it is even more shocking to note HOW many people actually despise gay people deep down. I always knew that a lot of people did, but it is another thing to SEE it your own eyes and feel it.

What is worse for me, other than these crass idiots, are the more reasonable people and how many of these people actually believe that homosexuality is not an inborn trait; it is a ‘lifestyle’ choice and they say things like, ‘well, RT should not have said such things in such a degrading manner, the homos made their choice and even though it’s wrong, forgive them..”

These people will never get it through their heads that most of us are born with the gene and only a small handful make the conscious choice.

Rex, you ask me to turn a blind eye to words and deeds that ultimately cause such laws as 377a, gay bashing, bullying and other forms of discrimination? Words that cause belief in conversion groups, words that call for the public to despise gays and treat them with contempt?

I will not. You may find it easy, or else it is easy for you to say, but it is not easy nor is it right to turn my face away from lies that tarnish us.

“Not so for the lot of us who are stuck with them in the same community.”

What irony! You are not ‘stuck’ with them in the same community. You have the choice to walk away, and then ignore them as you like. Those of us who are not part of your community are the ones ‘stuck’ to the discrimination, distrust and contempt that arise from these lies. They follow us on the internet, in newspapers, through the laws and the groups that support them and dog our actions and everyday life.

“You don’t have to live with them day in and day out. You can have your own friends who share your creed. You don’t have them breathing down your neck all the time… Not so for the lot of us who are stuck with them in the same community. Believe me, you haven’t seen HALF of the things I’ve seen and what they actually do.”

If, it is as hard as you describe, to live in such a community, then why continue? It puts to question what your loyalty to your creed is composed of, exactly. Is it fear or peer pressure? Or the need to conform, or social status? If it is as bad as you say, that you have seen things that I would find hard to believe then you probably also know that it is not right. So why continue to show support for what you know is wrong?

Quite simply, you can ignore them. You don’t have to live with them day in and day out. You can have your own friends who share your creed. You don’t have them breathing down your neck all the time.

Their comments hardly harm you, if anything it harms them more the it harms you, revealing the depth of their ignorance to the world. Not trying to be insensitive here, but largely the only reason they seem to cause damage to you is because you are making them credible by responding to them in that way.

Sometimes the best reply is simply to be ignored.

Not so for the lot of us who are stuck with them in the same community. Believe me, you haven’t seen HALF of the things I’ve seen and what they actually do.

So yes, walk in our shoes, or at the very least those of my gay friends who are in the church.

I come to this conclusion that I do not think LGBTs will behave differently for the simple reason that they are human. Extremists strains of thought exist in LGBT circles as well. Given enough extremist support, any idealogy can and will be perverted.

In fact it is the norm for any group to have their radicals.

At the end of the day I believe this: that each and every person should have their space to self-determinate as much as possible.

Then we can agree that religion is easily manipulated, which is what we see in RT case.(That’s my point all along).

This is why there’s a urgent need for separation of religion and state. (Secularism, which does not automatically meant altheism).

////In fact, I have no doubt that homosexuals, if the tables were ever reversed, would more likely then not act the same way. This is simply human nature.///

Really? how do you come to this conclusion? Based on which precedent?
From the US?

So far all we see the struggle is pretty much one sided, and its not the LGBT crying for the blood of these so-called Christians.

Whether Hitler killed people based on religion on skin colour, it is nonetheless still extremism – which is what is being displayed by Rony Tan.

My friend who used to be one of the faithful, I might even say, fanatical congregation of Lighthouse Evangelist, told me that RT has been doing it for years, just that no one outside of the congregation knew. Imagine being poisoned by the likes of this man for years and years.

No wonder there exists extreme prejudice against “other types” even in Singapore, where the government and people strive for harmony amidst a slew of different races, beliefs and culture and where the least discord would prove devastating. No wonder people like RT, the Thio shrews and their lackeys, Josie Lau and FOTF have the run of the mill. Nothing has been done or voiced to show that they can’t do exactly as they please to other groups of people, and hence their loud, harsh words and loud, harsh actions.

The only difference that matters, to me, is that RT is not in a position of power to put us in concentration camps.

A fact: The Oppressors love to demonize GLBT
Another fact: Most These Oppressive Cases arise from the Christian/Catholic Church or more widely, the Abrahamic faith.

The Oppressors love to wax lyrical about the ‘Gay Agenda’. What the hell is the Gay Agenda? Like there’s a worldwide conspiracy among GLBT to seduce the Pope and take over the Vatican City or to turn all your husbands and sons into ass lovers and your daughters into Hells Angels.

If, Rex, as you say, that even among your own kind you face intolerance, then imagine what others face. You and your family and friends aren’t being called paedolphiles and mules and monkeys and have it published for the world to see! Don’t ask us to walk in your shoes, walk in OURS.

And all these talks of being fair, sparing a thought for the presumed moderates, communism etc, doesn’t alter the FACT that the nation is repeatedly challenged by a group of wild, unrestrained activists who all think they can call down lightning from the skies. The threat is so critical, the Head of Government has to step in twice to control it.

My gentle suggestion to you, switch your focus elsewhere. And start pondering too about when it is YOUR turn.

One of the most advanced, peaceful, lawful cities in the entire world and in history.

A city in which we teach our young, from birth, the necessity and virtue of obeying the national law.

This is not some wild desert limbo. We don’t stone women. We don’t flog people for conversion. We also don’t burn people at the stakes. We don’t have warrior tribes defending with machetes Tampines or Ang Mo Kio.

I.E. It is easy to follow and obey the law.

So, the foremost duty of any Singaporean, is his/her duty to the country. Should they detect, for example, a deliberately seditious activity, such as Rony Tan’s videos, their first duty is to report it. Or, if they possess some position of relevance or authority, to restrain it. There is no violent repercussion. The only after effect is a possible loss of this glorious Christian identity, and some presumed friends.

Now we look at NCCS, they didn’t do their duties to the nation that supports them. Despite all the statements and promises and wows to maintain religious harmony.

Look at the 12000++ guardlighters. They didn’t do their duties to the country that gave them a safe habitat to indulge themselves. Instead, they laughed and clapped at statements that would destroy the nation.

Why did they do that? I wonder.

As for your admonishment of not walking-a-mile-in-their-shoes, let me give a testimonial too. I’ve walked hundreds of miles for thirty years as one of them, until I decided there is no benevolent God at the end of the road. So I decided to start walking in another direction. And that was that. Clean and simple. Plus, you know what, all those I’ve ever walked with, none of them ever displayed the kind of conflict you described. Those who really wanted to go away, left, and were unharrassed, because this is Singapore. Law is strong and protective. Those who stayed on, stayed on happily, indulging deeper and deeper into their fantasies of championship and human superiority, till they absolutely cannot life an hour without imagining themselves as different from their neighbours. Nobody had any internal conflict.

Because everyone has the ability to deny or walk away. It’s only a question of whether you want to.