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Article: We need to have morality policing
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- New Straits Times
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- April 4, 2005
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AMRA
New Straits Times
04-04-2005
We need to have morality policing
Byline: AMRA
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Type: Letter
I REFER to the report "Call to act against policing of morality" (NST,
March 23).
It stated that "40 non-governmental organisations and about 190
individuals" spoke against the policing of morality and "called for a
repeal of provisions in laws that deny citizens their fundamental rights
to privacy, freedom of speech and expression and which overlap the
Federal Penal Code".
I am all for maintaining the dignity of humans, including the dignity
that one should have for one's self.
I believe in privacy - in the privacy of expressing intimate acts in
the confines of a safe ...