Sunday, September 16, 2007
Homosexual Debate 2007

The heat escalated in the arena as 2 teams battled against each other at 8pm. The Oppositions, who did their presentation unprepared, and the propositions, who did their presentation unwillingly. And this was their topic.

"Homosexuality should be decriminalised and received by Christians in Singapore. Do you Agree?"

Our very 1st YAF meeting began once Caleb started the ball rolling for the opposition side. Besides him, the other representatives in his team include Eileen, Jessica and Zhihong. On the Proposition side, it was Pearlyn, Jeff, Clinton and myself. Unlike the other team, we had prepared our stuff about a week ago. The ironic truth behind this was that we only started preparing our speech after hearing that the Opposition were doing so, and it was only later that we have found out they didnt do so till on the very day itself.

I fared relatively okay when it came to my turn. Based on past experience, the involuntary stage fright would seep into my body, causing me to unnecessarily panic and tremble. It started off as what I feared most, but experience have also taught me that to counter fear was to face fear in the face, and that was when I started to make the passion in me burn stronger. Using anger to counter fear was my only tactic. It worked, the point was brought across, but Pearlyn probably had a scare of her life(So fierce!)..! I guess you can say I was over-passionate. Lol...

Nevertheless, both parties presented their cases quite well, evenly matching up in argument. It was not a moment of tension; there were the casual exclamations, the occasional teases from Jeff and a engaging gathering among the YAFers and the adults.

At the end of day, we shook on it and were glad that the endless nights of preparing the scripts are finally over. We had fun and yet gained a lot from this debate. Will there be a future debate? My take would be, definitely.

As what MM Lee Kuan Yew says best, "It's just a matter of time"
Cheers~