Do not look lonely gay priest issue

Gay clergy people of Malaysia (Ngeo Boon Lin) for reception

Action gay priests, Ngeo Boon Lin held a reception in the capital, recently should not 'look at these' authority because it can cause a negative culture is widely spread in this country. 

Reverend Ouyang Wen Feng (L) and his partner Phineas Newborn III smile during their wedding ceremony in Manhattan’s Wedding Garden in 2011 in New York. The gay Malaysian pastor said Monday he had held a wedding banquet with his American partner despite earlier outrage by conservatives in the Muslim-majority country opposed to their union.

President of the Young Thinkers Youth Association (PPM) Malaysia, Mohd. Naizamohideen Rafiq said, the action is not possible as an example to other gay people organizing the same event if no action authorities.

 "If there is no provision in the law, authorities must act firmly against gay couples who organized the event. 

"If there are weaknesses in the law, it should be revised so that amendments can be done to enable the implementation of more stringent penalties against any effort to introduce the inverted culture," he said at a press conference on the issue here today.


Banquet guests ushered to their seats at a Chinese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur had found small, heart-shaped chocolates wrapped in Chinese-language notes that translated into "God loves gays."


Two guests serenaded each other with Lionel Richie and Diana Ross' duet "Endless Love," while a transgender entertainer tearfully praised Ngeo and Newborn for reminding everyone that "there is only one sexual orientation: love."

One guest, Eric Goh, said gay Malaysians "need to come out in bigger numbers and we need to have more straight people support us."

Ngeo made his trip back to Malaysia a month after Prime Minister Najib Razak said in in a speech that gay, lesbian and transsexual behavior was part of a "deviant culture" that should "not have any place in this country."

Najib's statement marked a reiteration of the government's stance and did not trigger new concerns. But for gay Malaysians, especially Muslims, it nevertheless meant that the door to public self-expression remained slammed shut.

Most gay Malaysians live free from direct harassment by authorities, and a law that prescribes 20-year prison sentences for sodomy, even consensual, is rarely enforced. The most prominent person charged under that law was Anwar Ibrahim, an opposition leader acquitted this year of sodomizing a male former aide in what he claimed was a politically motivated case.

"I understand the sensitivities. I'm not demanding for gay marriage to be allowed now in Malaysia," Ngeo said, adding that his advice to gay Malaysians was to "keep going and be creative."

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