Catholic Archbishop withdraws letter to abolish ISA

The head of the Catholic Church in Singapore has confirmed that he wrote to an activist group backing its call to abolish the Internal Security Act (ISA) - but withdrew the letter later fearing it could affect the country's social harmony.

Archbishop Nicholas Chia, 73, on Wednesday said he had retracted the letter to Function 8 after he reflected on it and became concerned it could be used "in a manner that I did not intend".

The response came a day after blogger Alex Au wrote on his site Yawning Bread that the Archbishop had written to Function8 ahead of an anti-ISA rally in June.

Mr Au said he had not seen the letter, but heard it was "warmly-worded" and that it expressed support for the rally and the call for the ISA to be abolished.

This is one of the instances I supported the SBF Saint(Conqueror)'s view of the evilness of entrangling faith into secular politics.
Somehow it still runs in the RC blood.

I am personally against ISA, I believe it is obsolete and irrelevant now. But I am against any religion group to meddle in it.

You can only talk cock lah.

Who gives a damn if you are against religious groups involvement

I dont think that was Alex's intention. Alex was only pointing out the way things are being done in this country, and how people are cowed into silence. He was bemoaning about the past Church example and ruefully wondering if this is still the spirit behind the National Conversation, then might as well not have it.

Toronto said:

This is one of the instances I supported the SBF Saint(Conqueror)'s view of the evilness of entrangling faith into secular politics.
Somehow it still runs in the RC blood.

I am personally against ISA, I believe it is obsolete and irrelevant now. But I am against any religion group to meddle in it.

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