According to Alex Au, an online commentator, the Christian right will tend to use stealth to achieve its goals, because the discussion of religion is taboo in Singapore.

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We didn't really speak about my disability, not because it was a topic that was taboo... it was just never an issue.

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"We must talk about it, because all other things are spoken about, but this is taboo - no-one wants to touch it, " he told the meeting.

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Their existence is rarely mentioned because the issue of just how widespread slavery was in Germany at that time has remained taboo.

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And for the record, I'm using the word gay interchangeably with homosexual for the sake of conversation, because it really is a shame for perfectly good word pertaining to happiness to get associated it with the cultural taboo.

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