Inspired by Blogpastor, I too want to trot out my hypothetical what-if:
Let’s just suppose some very public person — an eminent scholar, a famous actor, or a popular singer — came out to the public with details of sex abuse in a Catholic school when he was a child, and then devoted another 80 minutes to make the point that all Christians are paedophiles. Videos of the speech spread like wildfire on the internet and this ignites a firestorm of controversy in Singapore.
Would not Christians at once cry foul? Would not the ISD act at once against this person?
Or would we all be laughing it off and telling Christians to grow a thicker hide because this was obviously a mad man talking?
Tags: Christianism, Christianity, religion, Rony Tan, Singapore
Would we be protecting this sex abuse victim’s freedom of speech?
This is really very interesting because for decades, allegations made by children within the Irish Catholic church of abuses (sexual and otherwise) were dismissed or covered up.
So the opposite (of sweeping statements that gays are paedophiles) actually happened — general sweeping claims were made that clergy could not have been paedophiles because they were…..well, clergy.