Honestly, judging from what I had seen in DBS campaign phamplets earlier, I had the impression that FotF is just another charity that focus mainly on the family… and nothing else. But I never expect FotF to be “intolerant” towards many aspects of life, which was only “made known” to me after seeing so many blog entries and web references. And as a layman like most of the other side of the percentile of the masses, I believe that this is purely an oversight that DBS may had made.

Perhaps, DBS would only like to garner positive publicity by funding and sponsoring a “pro-family” charity and showing to the public that it has exercise responsibility, albeit corporate-wise or social-wise during this festive season, especially after it has recieved bad press from, no less, the Mini Bonds and retrenchment saga.

Let’s put it in this manner. If another bank or corporation supports a charity in the name of corporate responsibility, but the charity also has the same ideology as FotF, would you go to the extend of boycotting the company? You may boycott, forsure. But yet again, I guess the company will try it’s best to do some form of damage control to reduce the “pain” inflicted.

So guys, let’s give them, and yourselves a break, especially since DBS has already decided to drop the campaign.

Nonetheless, after writing so many stuffs, I had still ended my 15 year banking relationship with the bank in the end.

If we are truly tolerant and free, then the high ground for us should to live as we believe and say what we believe without the need to resort to threats of boycott, name calling or nit picking. Having walked this journey for a while now, I believe there is a need for a higher response than the usual indignation and cries of victimization. There is no victory in this case no matter the outcome for we have already placed ourselves under their accusation and are living under it’s weight.

Let’s truly be tolerant or not claim to be. For we shall prevail if our cause is just. True joy and freedom to all

Singapore, or the world for that matter has no room for intolerance and bigotry.

And I was trying very very hard not to be rude to him so that may be why my answer came out prim & fuzzy!

They were never ‘pushing the gay agenda’ strongly or otherwise.
If you have that perception it’s probably due to the ‘government conditioning’ that thinks sex education is summed up by saying ‘abstinence’.

Recent faults of FOTF Singapore? I can point them out.
For a start, the school talks where they present false & misleading information? Where they get in disguised as ‘education’ but present their fundamentalist right wing Christian views?

I personally believe they are doing more to harm than help Singapore families. The family-friendly initiatives you describe are designed to make every family fit into their ideal template no matter how different people are or how much it hurts individual family members or relationships.

But I would not ‘take it out’ on them & their supporters–I’m all for allowing them to exist in peace as long as they stay away from me & my family.
However I will not give my money or my support to any organisation that supports them because I would then be supporting the evil I believe they are perpetrating.

Similarly, I don’t think anyone can point out any recent faults of FOTF Singapore. The ’sins of the father’ aside, FOTF SG itself looks like they’re more focussed on their ‘core business’ of building family-friendly initiatives these days. So if they’re doing charitable work, why are we taking it out on them and their supporters?