 Homosexuality issue will always bring out tensions in society: RAdm Lui
SINGAPORE : The issue of homosexuality will always bring out tensions in society, says Minister of State for Education Lui Tuck Yew.
And this is why, he adds, it is important to allow the people to come to their own conclusions about the matter.
Rear-Admiral Lui made this point when he was asked about homosexuality at a dialogue session at the annual Pre-University Seminar held at the Nanyang Technological University.
600 students from 26 institutions are taking part in the event.
RAdm Lui said: "We can't be stiff-necked. We need to be open to ideas but we have to come to our conclusions through the framework in Singapore. That's why it is important to have our own deep convictions and beliefs."
He added that he does not subscribe to the theory that it is a "medical condition". "Do you excuse paedophiles or psychopaths because of a medical condition?" RAdm Lui asked.
RAdm Lui said: "To me there are certain norms in society. And before we make major shift of those norms it is important that we sit and deliberate, and think through it carefully and move at a pace that society allows us to move.
"It does not mean that we should not try to reshape the thinking and so on and so forth, but we can only move at the pace at which society allows us to move. That's my own personal thoughts about it, and I don't think... certainly... I am not ready to move and I do not think a major segment of society is ready to move". | 
