Your comments on several public officials recently expressing their opposition to the admission of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students into universities, claiming they taint the nationâs morality:When will the word tolerance be added to Indonesia?Philippe MarlandSMSIt is not LGBT people, but the public officials that taint the nationâs morality
strong>Your comments on several public officials recently expressing their opposition to the admission of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students into universities, claiming they taint the nation's morality:
When will the word tolerance be added to Indonesia?
Philippe Marland
SMS
It is not LGBT people, but the public officials that taint the nation's morality. Do you agree with me, Bu Megawati Soekarnoputri and Bu Puan Maharani?
Nurdin E.
Those high-ranking, supposedly honorable, public officials are themselves a far bigger stain on the nation's morality than a few persons who happen to have a different view of sex than most have.
As long as these LGBT persons do not hamper others in their quest for happiness, why should we care?
Those ministers and their minions with their corruption and their falsifying of their educational qualifications are the real garbage. The trash bins are too clean for those. Throw them straight into the incinerator. The resulting smoke will be blown away very fast.
Hadi
I think that the public officials need to open their minds and look at other countries that have legalized gay marriage and gay rights.
This is why Indonesia isn't moving forward. We have officials who are very closed-minded.
Especially about these LGBT students getting into universities etc, it's the officials' morality that has to change. LGBT people are just humans! They don't harm the environment. Open your minds, officials!
TM
The article 'LGBT group faces state persecution', published in bold letters by Evi Mariani and Aldrin Rocky Sampeliling and in The Jakarta Post on Jan. 25, was tough to read.
Don't they know that it is not a sin to be LGBT?
How many high-ranking officials (good ones, too) are LGBT?
The people need proper education so as not to misjudge other people's welfare.
It is totally unfair (if not plain stupid) to persecute the LGBT group. They never asked to be born that way, did they?
Several public officials have expressed their opposition to the admission of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students into universities because they think the group taints the nation's morality. No, they won't. Instead, let us be more educated to accept them into the fold.
So, let us stop persecuting them unnecessarily so they can also pay their annual taxes in peace.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
The values of the ancestors of Indonesia?
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