Openly gay Reverend Ouyang Wen Feng is asking homosexual in Malaysia to come out of the closet and to help in the battle against homophobia.
AFP has the story:
Malaysia’s only openly gay pastor is urging homosexuals in the mainly Muslim country to “keep coming out” to help battle homophobia, as he gets set to tie the knot with his American partner.
Reverend Ouyang Wen Feng is a highly controversial figure who faced outrage and threats when he opened in 2007 the first gay-friendly church in conservative Malaysia, where sexual identity is a hot-button topic.
Homosexuality, still a crime punishable by 20 years in jail under Malaysian laws banning sodomy, remains taboo across the racial and religious spectrum in Malaysia, which is home to large ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities.
But Ouyang, a journalist-turned-pastor, said gay men and women should speak out to “break the vicious cycle” and help fight misunderstandings about the gay community.
“When society discriminates against gay people, you only push gay people into the closet,” he told AFP in an interview last week on a visit to Hong Kong to launch a new book on homosexuality and Christianity.
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