They asked for tolerance. Now they demand allegiance.
The LGBTQ movement began as a call to protect basic freedoms. Now, it has morphed into an ideological movement that seeks to reshape culture through law, education, media, and language, enforced by moral coercion.
It presents itself as inclusion, but its goal is transformation.
1. LGBTQ Activism is an Ideology
At the heart of LGBTQ activism is a simple idea: our sexuality has a significant impact our identity, so every sexual expression must be affirmed. Realising this vision requires activists to reshape what society deems normal, moral, and true.
If you’ve felt bombarded by the ideological shift through avenues like media, law, classrooms and corporations, that’s intentional. That’s how the ideology spreads – through the long march through the institutions.
And because culture doesn’t stand still, every space it touches begins to shift.
2. LGBTQ Activism Seeks to Remake Society
The activists’ playbook is to frame all dissent as bigotry and present radical demands as simple calls for “equality”
But equal treatment already exists in law. What activists now want is something else entirely: wholesale cultural reprogramming.
Consider the impact of the ideology in the following areas:
- Activists demand that school curricula must teach that contested view that all sexual identities are morally equal.
- Activists demand that medical professionals must affirm gender transitions or face consequences. Even counselling, psychology and psychiatry are being pressured to conform.
- Activists have pushed for parents who “deny” their own children “life-saving gender medicine” to be shamed and risk losing custody.
- Boldly, they even demand that traditional religious teachings must accommodate pro-LGBTQ values.
All this from a movement that once protested against the imposition of belief on society. Now, it ironically insists on the institutionalisation of its own demands across society.
3. LGBTQ Activism Wants to Convert You
Activism doesn’t stop at policy or institutional takeover. It targets your heart and mind.
Groups like Pink Dot use sloganeering and rhetoric like “freedom to love” and “family acceptance.” But beneath that soft language lies a sharp push to recast moral norms, replacing restraint with licentiousness, principle with emotion, and biology with self-identification.
Now, talk about national values may not really be in vogue in our reconstructionist age, but the attack on our norms is literally an imported assault on Singapore’s long-held ideals. There’s good reason why our schools still teach abstinence before marriage, respect for boundaries, and responsibility in relationships. These are standards grounded in discipline, not desire.
Lee Kuan Yew once warned that “there is grave disquiet when we break away from tested norms.” The cultural architect he was, he upheld thrift, family loyalty, and the moral strength of restraint.
LGBTQ activism turns that upside down. Feelings come first, boundaries must bend, and to disagree is to “harm”.
That framing doesn’t reason, it shames. It’s a tactic known as “jamming”, as described in the LGBTQ manifesto After the Ball: make dissent feel immoral. Make silence feel like complicity.
Once that mindset spreads, especially among the young, social change accelerates.
4. LGBTQ Activism Proposes Solutions That Don’t Work
Change the laws, activists say, and hearts will follow. Remove discrimination, and prejudice will vanish. This conversion effort comes with grand promises.
But that hasn’t happened. Even in countries that have made sweeping legal changes, the fight over culture hasn’t gone away. Gender identity, parental rights, freedom of speech, and public norms remain socially divisive flashpoints.
Yes, prejudice exists as it does everywhere. But Singapore didn’t manage diversity by demanding ideological conformity; we built it on shared civic principles: meritocracy, mutual respect, restraint.
We should continue to find Singaporean solutions that preserve unity without importing radical agendas. We can oppose real, unjust discrimination without embracing everything activists demand in the name of “equality.”
If we don’t draw the line, someone else will, and we may not like where they draw it.
But what if we don’t draw the line? What if we accept the full package, the ideology behind the demands?
5. LGBTQ Activism Reshapes Reality for the Worse
Then we’re not just changing laws, we’re reshaping reality itself.
LGBTQ ideology teaches that identity comes from within, that feelings trump the body, and that biology is optional.
But when emotion replaces nature, confusion follows.
- Gender is no longer rooted in the body, it drifts with feelings, moods, or self-perception.
- Sex is no longer connected to commitment or creation, but reframed as personal pleasure detached from consequences.
- Marriage is no longer a union built for family, it becomes a flexible contract, open to any combination, with no inherent ties to children or sexual complementarity.
- And family? It’s no longer anchored in mother and father, but redesigned by ideology, on purpose. Not to heal brokenness, but to redefine what it means to be whole, without fathers, without mothers, without permanence.
This is not progressive, it’s the most regressive approach to society ever conceived. It’s sold as freedom, but only leads to collapse.
A society built on fictions cannot flourish. And ironically, the very community seeking acceptance may find itself rejected, tied to an ideology that alienates the very public it hopes to persuade.
But that’s no excuse for us to do the same. We must learn to separate politics from people, to reject an ideology while holding space for the differences in individuals. We can care for those with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria while questioning the dogmas of those who speak in their name.
6. LGBTQ Activism ≠ The LGBTQ Community
That distinction matters. Because activists often blur that, as it allows them to cast disagreement as hatred and skepticism as prejudice. But they are not the same, and they never were.
Critiquing LGBTQ activism isn’t the same as condemning LGBTQ individuals.
It’s not hard to understand: criticism of activism is not an attack on a group of people.
Even within activist circles, there are disagreements over various issues. Likewise, the LGBTQ community is not a monolith. Many just want to live their own lives with the acceptance of those around them, not be conscripted into a social revolution that they don’t even want or have others acquiesce to its demands.
7. LGBTQ Activism Will Not Stop
Repealing 377A was framed as a final compromise. It wasn’t. The movement marched on, moving the goalpost from the “freedom to love” to housing policy, education, public benefits, and more.
Further, in Singapore and around the world, activist demands have grown: from decriminalisation and same-sex marriage to transgender rights, pronoun policies, and the redefinition of family itself.
Why? Because this movement doesn’t stop, but shifts the goalposts again and again.
First, it asks for tolerance. Then affirmation. Then enforcement.
What begins as tolerance has hardened into doctrine. And with every concession society is guilted into, another demand follows that further reshapes the social contract to soothe feelings, not reflect facts.
In the process, and in order to be accommodating and nice, we, in effect have our tolerance weaponised against ourselves. We trade away the very things that once held us together and kept us tethered to the same reality: common sense, biological truth, reason, evidence, and our most cherished institutions: marriage, parenting, family.
A Campaign for Cultural Domination
The LGBTQ movement may have spoken the language of tolerance once upon a time, but its present ambitions have clearly shifted.
What began as a push for protection has hardened into a campaign for cultural domination, dressed in the language of inclusion. But beneath the soft slogans lie a hard truth: this movement demands more than coexistence, it demands conversion.
Singapore must not mistake this for compassion. We can reject prejudice without capitulating to an ideology bent on remaking society in its image. We don’t need radical ideas to build a just society. And we can live side by side without surrendering truth.
Because true tolerance welcomes neighbours, it does not demand they kneel.
