re: "Activists decry Malaysian ban on LGBT books" (BP, February 16, 2023)
Dear editor,
When Malaysia's Home Ministry bans books that treat same-sex love and gender uncertainty in positive ways on the grounds that "its objective was to 'prevent the spread of elements that are harmful to morality in the community'," it is important to clearly identify exactly what that morality being so protected by bad law is. It is the morality of traditional violence against LGBTQ people. It is the morality of hate and intolerance. It is the morality that condemns 5% of the Malaysian people to fearful hiding of their true selves. It is the morality that pushes parents to reject their LGBTQ children. It is, in short, a morality that rejects love, liberty, respect and decency in favour of hate, oppression, fear and injustice.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on February 18, 2023, under the title "Twisted morality" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2509369/no-shortcuts-in-war
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