Parents in Malaysia! Beware! If your son likes to wear
V-neck shirts, it's because he's gay and wants to show off his body to other
boys!
And your daughters, if they prefer the company of only
some girls, but not all girls, look out - they're lesbian!
Seriously? o_O
Yes, the Malaysian government is at it again. It's all
over the
news in Asia, but also getting attention with some Western
press and bloggers.
I wrote about efforts in Malaysia to revive reparative
therapy techniques to
turn ladyboys into real men, so I won't recover all of that. But it seems
the Malaysian government is really paranoid about having gays within the
populace and is soliciting the help of parents and teachers in spotting this
scourge so something can be done about it.
As I've said before, it would all be laughable if it
weren't so freaking real. The seminars being hosted in Penang, which has been
known to have a lively gay scene, are the fourth conducted in the country.
Despite that lively scene in Penang, a friend of mine who lives there is
absolutely scared to death to have anyone find out he is gay.
Buddhism is about refuge and I have found the Buddha's
teachings to be excellent support for gay practitioners. Yes, there are
Buddhist commentators and teachers who adopt homophobia as part of their
doctrine, but that's their doctrine, not the Buddha's. When
I launched this blog a little more than three years ago, I wrote about how
our coming out process was a liberating experience very much like the
liberating feeling we experience when we encounter the Dhamma.
I hope our family in Malaysia remains strong throughout
this, regardless of their religious point of view. Some meditative sessions on
loving kindness are probably in order.
And the more musclely straight men who wear colorful V-necks and carry big
satchels, the better.
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