Janadas was formerly a senior editor of The Straits Times, the flagship English-language daily newspaper of Singapore Press Holdings.
[8] In the article, Janadas rebutted the parliamentary speech of Singapore Nominated Member of Parliament Thio Li-ann.
The idiots that we are, we had believed "pluralism" meant, among other things, "autonomy and retention of identity for individual bodies", a "society in which the members of minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions", "a system that recognises more than one ultimate principle or kind of being", as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it.
Imagine that: The moral conservative majority makes better vulgar jokes than the immoral liberal minority – and in Parliament too.
Ms Yvonne Lee Ching Ling, an assistant professor of law at NUS, wrote a letter[10] to the Straits Times Forum as a reply to Janadas's article.
He cited a personal anecdote of a female friend in the United States who had married another woman, with two healthy children and living an otherwise normal life.