Q. IS A PERSON WHO DIFFERS STRONGLY FROM OUR VIEWS – NECESSARILY OUR DEAD ENEMY? OR FOR THE MATTER, IS IT RESPECTABLE LEADERSHIP IN STRENGTH AND WISDOM TO RAIN BLOWS ONE’S PERCIEVED OPPONENT AS AN ENEMY.

Contrary, the strength in a Truly WISE person never cause him to have to be a BULLY! The simple reason is that, the wise is Fearless as he has wisdom to clarify and enlighten W/O ever resorting to unrespectable Force and Centric Means to achieve his goal. Example: If a footballer or a basketballer use unfair actions to get a goal, esp. by injurying his opponent – Won’t he get a Red Card? Or at least an Yellow one for a start?

And would you respect such a guy afterwards. Esp. if he keeps repeating such negative acts?

That said, this is the parallel I believe matchmaker is trying to convey.

MM of course gets away with them all for the most obvious reasons. The highest executive power of office and PAP’s economic success here. Though we can’t say the same in many other areas too.

When one is so GungHo about a believe, though good in sense of it, we would have done that good believe values a dire diservice by being protubrant of it eventhough done in probity. For such actions are nothing less then imposing one’s own upon another one’s own to be devalued and discarded for the wrong reasons than with humility and ultruism in loving ways.

The Holy Bible may be full of stories of wars and discords of our human kind. But never does it teach us in any way to be otherwise, except to be even loving to our enemies. The more self determine a person’s conviction, themore a person’t self-righteous half will become predominant.

While I applaud your even treatment to the issue. I cannot help but detect a hint of discrimination and a bit too condescending for you to think that homosexual need to live up to your image of your believes.

May be that’s the real issue.

Many Christians I spoke too say they love homosexuals as God loves them but like to see them given a second chance and become normal again. Conservative Christian adherent to their book-of-faith, treating homosexual as an aberration and their activity as a sin does not provide a middle ground for them to accept homosexual as they are… and when such views are taken to the extreme create deviants such as Thio Su Mien and Josie.

If only we can look at our own imperfections, stop been so self-righteous, may be then, we can have a truly inclusive society, instead of providing lip-services with hidden agenda.

The women had voted. I think AWARE should put “who’s the boss” all behind, now that the dust settled.

Focus the attention back to women issue again.

Women do have a lot of problems. Back to the question of what women really wants? Maybe let AWARE focus on what women really need?

Talking abt $90,000 spent…

Women….

“What’s next? The government?”

what makes you think they’re not already planning their move?

“If the new ex-co will, without contest, give up its seats for a more inclusive shape of leadership in AWARE, it will have regained, I dare say, the faith of many Singaporeans and the admiration and support of every Christian in full measure.”

It takes amazing grace and faith in God to be ale to do this.”

And yet never more christian, never a better example.

But this is moot now, since they have been voted out.