Myung-bak, Lee, the former Seoul Mayor and a strong president hopeful from the major opposition party, the Grand National Party (GNP) in Korea said yesterday that he is fundamentally against the gay marriage and the abortion, but an abortion may be considered if a fetus is proven disable.
Not surprisingly, his comment brought up an immense criticism from civil groups advocating human rights particularly for those wtih has physical and mental difficulties. Tear shedding scene of physically challenged demonstrators in wheelchairs shrieking out strike slogans was painful to look at. They've already suffered from all forms of discrimination and unbearable arduousness beyond anybody's imagination. And this person who hopes to run the country "proudly" calls it may not be worthwhile to share the grendeur theme of "human rights" with the challenged personnels. Wonderful!
I was speechless when I heard him speaking it. I couldn't simply believe that someone intending to run for a presidency has such an unethical, cold-blooded, discouraging, and simply wrongful idea. And he didn't bother to make an official apologetic comments aftermath. Well, his spokesperson made a press release that his comment was "misinterpreted" by media, yet never made an apology. Very convient! More shocking fact adding to it? He is supposedly a sincere Christian, entitled with a senior position at the church he has been attending.
Listening to a series of mistakingly(?) made comments of his, I became convinced that he can't be a person who will give his best to embrace all and protect the needed, and he won't hesitate to leave those behind if they don't concur with his ideas or can't meet thereof, which severely blemishes one of the integral constituent of democracy; reaching mutual concurrances through negotiations, not leaving opponents behind offended and unsatisfied.
