Aware old guard insist to carry on teaching sch kids homosexual is normal anal sex is

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SINGAPORE : No meeting date has been set, but the old guard AWARE executive committee - voted back into power two days ago - has set out its priorities.

Top of which is how to manage its now-swollen base of around 3,000 members, many of whom joined only in the days leading up to the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Saturday.

“There’s so much more we can do now because we have so many more people ... we will look at how to extend the use of new media and engage younger people,” AWARE's new president, 57-year-old Dana Lam, said on Sunday. She was speaking on Talking Point on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, and to TODAY. Ms Lam said there is “a heavy responsibility now” to keep the new members interested.

Exco member Margaret Thomas told TODAY that managing the membership is now the “biggest challenge” for AWARE. “We have to get in touch and find out more their interests,” said Ms Thomas, 57, an AWARE founder member.

What the Exco won’t be doing though, is to change the direction of the 24-year-old advocacy group.

“I don’t expect us to be in great hurry to go in new directions. There are very good programmes in place,” Ms Lam told TODAY. “(These) will carry on.”

Different views will be taken on board, but they will have to be taken into context, added Ms Thomas.

“If we do something that the majority of people feel is wrong, we will consider what is wrong and needs to be changed. But just because someone barks, it does not mean that you change your path.” An immediate task is to arrange for a handover and retrieve official documents from the previous team, as well as restore confidence with AWARE’s sponsors and programme users. “One of the first things might be to contact our subcommittees chairs and restore them in their position,” said Ms Lam.

On the S$90,000 supposedly spent by the previous Exco, Ms Lam said: “It’s a little too early for us to comment on (talk of a law suit). We have to go into the office and look at what has actually been going on before we make a decision.”

Correcting certain impressions of AWARE brought on by the saga is another priority.

For one of the six new faces on the 12-woman committee, Ms Hafizah Osman, content development manager of Mocca.com, the task ahead is to “get back on track” and “ensure that the passion and commitment (at the EGM) ... are captured and harnessed for AWARE”.

The leadership coup had made the 39-year-old mother of two young children “sit up” and take on an active role. With women from different races and religions on the new committee, she is “confident” that AWARE “will be able to hear the different voices in society”.

As for criticism that AWARE has not been organised, Ms Lam said this is inaccurate. “We don’t have enough volunteers, we may be a little slack in the administration. It has always been difficult to get busy people to give us the time, and advocacy is not a very popular kind of thing to do.”

The loopholes in the constitution - that enabled the takeover on March 28 - were already in the process of being thought out.

“We were not fast enough to put it into fact. What are the lessons learnt? I think we have to be more vigilant ... Of course, we are now going to look at that and change the locks on our back doors.”

 

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Re: Aware old guard insist to carry on teaching sch kids homosexual is normal anal se

SINGAPORE : No meeting date has been set, but the old guard AWARE executive committee - voted back into power two days ago - has set out its priorities.

Top of which is how to manage its now-swollen base of around 3,000 members, many of whom joined only in the days leading up to the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Saturday.

“There’s so much more we can do now because we have so many more people ... we will look at how to extend the use of new media and engage younger people,” AWARE's new president, 57-year-old Dana Lam, said on Sunday. She was speaking on Talking Point on MediaCorp TV Channel 5, and to TODAY. Ms Lam said there is “a heavy responsibility now” to keep the new members interested.

Exco member Margaret Thomas told TODAY that managing the membership is now the “biggest challenge” for AWARE. “We have to get in touch and find out more their interests,” said Ms Thomas, 57, an AWARE founder member.

What the Exco won’t be doing though, is to change the direction of the 24-year-old advocacy group.

“I don’t expect us to be in great hurry to go in new directions. There are very good programmes in place,” Ms Lam told TODAY. “(These) will carry on.”

Different views will be taken on board, but they will have to be taken into context, added Ms Thomas.

“If we do something that the majority of people feel is wrong, we will consider what is wrong and needs to be changed. But just because someone barks, it does not mean that you change your path.” An immediate task is to arrange for a handover and retrieve official documents from the previous team, as well as restore confidence with AWARE’s sponsors and programme users. “One of the first things might be to contact our subcommittees chairs and restore them in their position,” said Ms Lam.

On the S$90,000 supposedly spent by the previous Exco, Ms Lam said: “It’s a little too early for us to comment on (talk of a law suit). We have to go into the office and look at what has actually been going on before we make a decision.”

Correcting certain impressions of AWARE brought on by the saga is another priority.

For one of the six new faces on the 12-woman committee, Ms Hafizah Osman, content development manager of Mocca.com, the task ahead is to “get back on track” and “ensure that the passion and commitment (at the EGM) ... are captured and harnessed for AWARE”.

The leadership coup had made the 39-year-old mother of two young children “sit up” and take on an active role. With women from different races and religions on the new committee, she is “confident” that AWARE “will be able to hear the different voices in society”.

As for criticism that AWARE has not been organised, Ms Lam said this is inaccurate. “We don’t have enough volunteers, we may be a little slack in the administration. It has always been difficult to get busy people to give us the time, and advocacy is not a very popular kind of thing to do.”

The loopholes in the constitution - that enabled the takeover on March 28 - were already in the process of being thought out.

“We were not fast enough to put it into fact. What are the lessons learnt? I think we have to be more vigilant ... Of course, we are now going to look at that and change the locks on our back doors.”

Margaret Thomas -wasnt she fr 154th before?

What is a 154th running dog doing in AWARE,or has she changed her color and found her conscious?I hope so.

 

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Re: Aware old guard insist to carry on teaching sch kids homosexual is normal anal se

You are missing the point completely. It is not that anal sex, or all defiant forms of it, are ok, good and healthy.

The main message is always "do not have sex before marriage". BUT if you insist, let us teach you how to do it safely. Aboslutely nothing wrong with that.

"I am the feminist mentor and i shall intercede and save you from SARS and homos..." - thats disturbing

 

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Re: Aware old guard insist to carry on teaching sch kids homosexual is normal anal se

You are missing the point completely. It is not that anal sex, or all defiant forms of it, are ok, good and healthy.

The main message is always "do not have sex before marriage". BUT if you insist, let us teach you how to do it safely. Aboslutely nothing wrong with that.

"I am the feminist mentor and i shall intercede and save you from SARS and homos..." - thats disturbing

There is no such thing as "SAFE SEX" when one engages in sexual promiscuity or deviant sexual practices. The risks involved are similar to those of playing RUSSIAN ROULETTE and no one plays Russian Roulette saying that it is a SAFE GAME.

http://www.physiciansforlife.org/content/view/204/37/

2. Safe Sex Myth Exposed by Scientific NIH 20July01 Report
Condoms Do Not Prevent Most STDs

There are 15 Million New STD Cases in the U.S. Each Year

There is no scientific evidence that condoms prevent the transmission of most sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) according to a report released by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in July 2001.

[www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/stds/condomreport.pdf]

The report was developed by a scientific panel of 28 experts who collaborated to examine 138+ peer-reviewed, published studies on condom effectiveness in the transmission of STDs. This workshop report, "Scientific Evidence on Condom Effectiveness for Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention", is co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

The researchers found no proof that condoms are effective in preventing the spread of the primary STDs that represent 98% of the 15 million new STD cases annually.

Of eight major STDs [HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, chancroid, trichomoniasis, genital herpes, & human papillomavirus (HPV)] examined by the panel, condoms were not found to provide universal protection against any of these STDS.

The panel of researchers found just two areas of condom effectiveness, both of which were significantly limited:

the heterosexual transmission of HIV and…
the female to male transmission of gonorrhea
When used correctly and consistently, condoms were found to reduce the risk of heterosexual HIV infection by 85 percent (p.14). The important qualification here is that most HIV is not transmitted heterosexually, and most gonorrhea is not transmitted from female to male.

Additionally, these two areas (heterosexual HIV and female to male gonorrhea) represent a mere 2% of all STDs occurring annually in the U.S., and nearly all of this 2% is gonorrhea, which can be treated with antibiotics. In fact, HIV represents just 0.26% of all STDs occurring annually in America [about 40,000 cases] and heterosexually transmitted HIV represents just 0.03% of all annual cases of STDs.1,4

In effect then, the panel found that condoms can reduce the risk of transmission of two of the least common STDs which represent about 2% of the annual cases of STDs in America, nearly all of which is the curable, bacterial disease -- gonorrhea. [The Panel concluded that condoms "could reduce the risk of gonorrhea," but only for men. (Executive Summary p. 2)]

The Panel concluded that there was no epidemiological evidence that condom use reduced the risk of HPV infection (ES 2)."

An estimated 20 million Americans are currently infected with genital HPV, making it the most common STD (23). HPV is the cause of nearly all cervical cancer and has also been linked to prostate, anal and oral cancer. While not everyone infected with HPV will develop cancer, every year 15,000 cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed and 5,000 U.S. women die from the disease. Hundreds of thousands of other women will be diagnosed and treated for pre-cancerous conditions which some researchers estimate are about four times more common than invasive cervical cancer.

For the remaining five diseases, the Panel noted that no evidence was available that could be interpreted as "proof of the adequacy" of condoms (ES 2).

The panel was convened [in 2000] at the request of then-Congressman Tom Coburn, a practicing physician, who had long criticized the CDC and Planned Parenthood for misleading the public about the effectiveness of condoms. "This report finally exposes the 'safe' sex myth for the lie that it is," said Coburn. "For decades, the federal government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to promote an unsubstantiated claim that promiscuity can be safe. We all now know for a fact that that is a lie. Who can ever know the true toll in human lives and health care costs that have resulted from the misinformation that has been propagated by the CDC, Planned Parenthood and the rest of the 'safe' sex lobby?" Coburn said nearly half of the pregnant women he cares for in his practice are infected with HPV. Most of his patients, and most Americans according to several recent polls, have never even heard of HPV.

In 1999, a total of 7%--18% of women attending Title X clinics reported using condoms as their primary method of contraception. [MMWR Weekly, 10May02]

A law authored by Coburn (Public Law 106-554) requires that all federal agencies, including the CDC, and all organizations receiving federal funding provide "medically accurate information regarding the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of condoms in preventing" HPV and other STDs. Coburn has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Thompson outlining how the CDC has failed to implement the law and requesting that the Secretary "take appropriate actions to properly enact the law and educate the public with the truth about HPV so we can start saving lives…This report means that when condom use is discussed, it is no longer medically accurate -- or legal -- for the CDC -- to refer to sex as 'safe' or 'protected,'" [emphasis added] Coburn pointed out. "Condoms may reduce risk for heterosexual HIV infection, and gonorrhea for men, but it is medically inaccurate to say that condoms prevent STDs. In fact, this report is quite clear that there is no evidence that condoms can prevent HPV infection."

"As a medical doctor, the best prescription I can give to avoid infection with a sexually transmitted disease is abstinence until marriage and a life-long, mutually monogamous relationship with one uninfected partner," Coburn said.

According to the NIH report, "in the US, more than 65 million individuals are living with a STD, the majority of which are incurable viral infections. Approximately 15 million new sexually transmitted infections occur annually in the U.S. (ES 1)."

Abstinence educators are committed to helping teens make good decisions for their future and to understand the truth that abstinence until marriage is the only true protection from the physical, emotional, mental, and social consequences of sexual activity, and that saving sex until marriage is the safest and healthiest lifestyle.

3. Condom-HIV failure rate found to be 10%
- A draft report for the UN's AIDS agency has found that even when people use condoms consistently, the failure rate for protection against HIV is an estimated 10 percent, making them a larger risk than often portrayed. [John Donnelly, Globe Staff 6/22/03 http://www.boston.com/; L. Benn]