Gaïety: February 2004 Archives
This made me smile. It's novel in itself that an eighty one year old constitutional monarch should make almost daily scribblings and post them to his country and the world via the internet - and why not - but quite another for them to be so openly liberal as this.
To précis, he begins...
"As befits the 2nd Khmer Kingdom, which has been a liberal democracy since 1993, I think that [the kingdom] should permit, if they desire it, marriage between a man and a man, or between a woman and a woman.
"...something Stairs has having difficulty making out..."
"Transvestites (Khteisys?) - neither men nor women - these transvestites should be accepted and well treated within our national community.
"As for homosexuals and lesbians, I respect them. It isn't their fault that they (sensitive interjection of gender-specific corrections to include both sexes - I like this guy) are as they are; it is the good God who loves diversity of tastes and colours, among all [sorts of] humans, animals, plants &c.
It's a shame that he can't execute his will, or the hardcore conservative right, but it is refreshing to hear something like that from someone so locally revered.
End of illuminating dinner break.
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EDIT: BBC link
