Sgapore's top urt dismiss attempt to overturn gay sex ban | Rters

Contents:

• SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS SEEN GROWG SGAPORE
• MOST SGAPOREANS STILL SUPPORT LAW BANNG GAY SEX: SURVEY
• PEOPLE SGAPORE MORE LIBERAL NOW ON GAY RIGHTS: POLL
• SGAPORE REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SGAPORE'S TOP URT DISMISS ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN GAY SEX BAN
• SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY
• SGAPORE SOCIETY STILL LARGELY NSERVATIVE BUT BEG MORE LIBERAL ON GAY RIGHTS: IPS SURVEY

SUPPORT FOR GAY RIGHTS SEEN GROWG SGAPORE

Acrdg to an Ipsos poll 2022, only 20% of Sgaporeans support repealg the law crimalizg homosexualy, wh 44% support of retag there are signs attus are changg, wh the same poll showg 45% of Sgaporeans believe they are "more acceptg" of same-sex relatnships, cludg 67% aged 18 to on Sunday ced growg acceptance for gay people as a reason for changg the law. "The law, which will likely need to be changed by parliament, had been g unr creasg prsure recent years due to the legal recently, the Court of Appeals cled earlier this year to strike down the legislatn on the basis that gay men "do not face any real and credible threat of prosecutn.

Soon after announcg that nsensual gay sex would no longer be illegal, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong said his annual Augt rally speech that his ernment would “uphold and safeguard the stutn of marriage” – fed the Constutn as a unn between man and woman. And that disappotment will only have epened wh the suggtn by some of Lee’s misters that not only would the ernment rema opposed to gay marriage – may even create extra hurdl to prevent people om seekg to challenge the marriage laws urt.

Law mister K Shanmugam said an terview wh state media that Parliament, rather than the urts, would hold the power to fe marriage – effectively makg harr for people to legally challenge the ernment’s polici as several gay men have attempted recent years.

MOST SGAPOREANS STILL SUPPORT LAW BANNG GAY SEX: SURVEY

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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Sgapore has seen “distct shifts” attus to gay rights the last five years, wh support for same-sex marriage risg, a survey released on Thursday six 10 of those aged between 18 and 25 believe same-sex marriage is not wrong, acrdg to the survey by the Instute of Policy Studi, a Sgapore-based thk-tank. “This is pecially so among rponnts aged between 18 and 25, who were much more liberal about moral issu pared to the rponnts aged 65 and above, ” poll, nducted between Augt 2018 and January 2019, foced on people’s views on social, moral and polil fdgs e amid a renewed ph by gay rights activists the cy-state to overturn a Brish lonial-era law that bans gay Sgaporean men have filed separate petns to urt seekg to legalize gay sex sce late last year, after India crimalized gay sex a landmark lg. Prev legal challeng Sgapore to overturn the ban failed but a proment diplomat last year lled on the gay muny to renew legal actn agast the Sectn 377A of Sgapore’s Penal Co, a man found to have mted an act of “gross cency” wh another man uld be jailed for up to two years, although prosecutns are law do not apply to homosexual acts between women.

SINGAPORE (Rters) - A slim majory of Sgaporeans still support a law that bans gay sex, an onle survey showed on Monday, amid renewed bate on whether the cy-state should follow India’s footsteps and scrap siar Brish lonial-era PHOTO: A woman holds a rabow flag at the Pk Dot event, Sgapore's annual gay pri rally, at a park Sgapore July 1, 2017. REUTERS/Darren WhiPrev legal challeng to overturn the ban failed but a proment Sgapore diplomat lled on the gay muny to renew legal actn agast the law, a day after India’s top urt crimalized gay sex a landmark percent of 750 Sgaporeans surveyed by pennt market rearch and nsultg firm, Ipsosstill supported the Ipsos poll 12 percent opposed the law, while 33 percent were neher for or agast nducted the onle poll of people aged between 15-65 years over four days late July and early Sectn 377A of Sgapore’s Penal Co, a man found to have mted an act of “gross cency” wh another man uld be jailed for up to two years, although prosecutns are rare. The law do not apply to homosexual acts between s six s sce pennce, Sgapore has emerged as a morn, wealthy cy, lawmakers rema typilly ut over social reforms, partly due to sensivi stemmg om the ethnic and relig mix among Sgapore’s 5.

PEOPLE SGAPORE MORE LIBERAL NOW ON GAY RIGHTS: POLL

6 ln habants - a populatn that clus cizens, permanent rints and foreignersAn Ipsos spokwoman said s survey had not been missned, but was unrtaken to mark the 10th anniversary of Sgapore’s annual LGBT pri para, Pk Dot, an event that draws thoands of week, Tommy Koh, a veteran diplomat and lawyer, lled on the Sgapore gay muny to brg a class actn and challenge the Affairs and Law Mister K. In June, Thailand edged closer to beg the first place Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex unns when lawmakers passed four different bills aimg to provi greater rights to gay upl, such as the abily to adopt children and manage assets jotly.

SINGAPORE — Sgaporeans have bee more liberal towards homosexualy over the last five years, wh a paper by the Instute of Policy Studi (IPS) showg “distct shifts” attus — pecially among the young — towards gay sex and gay stance, the paper revealed that 11. WHAT THE FINDINGS MEANDr Mathews, Mr Lim and Ms Selvarajan said that while most of the rponnts remaed nservative towards gay marriage and sex, the fdgs poted to “signifint shifts acceptance” towards the issu, pecially among the fdgs parg the rpons age horts om 2013 to 2018 meant that there uld be greater acceptance of gay rights Sgapore future, if prent trends ntue, they said.

“This is bee creasgly larger proportns of younger Sgaporeans uld view gay sex and gay marriage as not wrong, even as the olr rponnts are slower acceptg issu surroundg gay rights, ” they, they noted, have given the most support to the growg acceptance of the needs of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer uld possibly be bee of creased activism among lennials pecially when to human rights and gay rights, for thors noted that the Government has on a few ocsns said that would nsir the majory’s views on issu such as the repeal of Sectn 377A of the Penal Co, which crimalis sex between men.

SGAPORE REPEALS GAY SEX BAN BUT LIMS PROSPECT OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

“While the majory of Sgaporeans rema nservative towards gay rights, if the trend towards more liberal attus among the young ntu, certa social polici will have to evably be relooked and re-evaluated, ” they Lim said that the changg attus dited the need for ntued regular large-sle surveys to discern sentiments on the issu and track evolvg trends that n rm policymakg. REUTERS/Fele Lim/File Photo Acquire Licensg RightsSINGAPORE, Nov 29 (Rters) - Sgapore's parliament on Tuday crimalised sex between men, but, a blow to the LGBT muny, also amend the nstutn to prevent urt challeng that other untri have led to the legalisatn of same-sex mov e as other parts of Asia, cludg Taiwan, Thailand and India are regnisg more rights for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny. SINGAPORE — More than half of Sgaporeans objected to other untri followg Taiwan’s example legalisg same-sex marriag, acrdg to an onle 887 Sgaporean rponnts the survey nducted by Blackbox Rearch were asked, “Recently, Taiwan’s Parliament legalised gay marriage.

SGAPORE'S TOP URT DISMISS ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN GAY SEX BAN

”About 56 per cent of the rponnts said “no”, while 44 per cent said “y”, acrdg to the survey missned by Yahoo News Sgapore nducted om 13-26 rponnts were also asked on how they feel about the statement, “Taiwan’s Parliament recently legalised gay marriage and more than 300 same-sex upl were married the first week after the new law was passed. Homosexualy issu and same-sex marriag have been the spotlight Asia recently, followg two historic legislative chang and a landmark urt September last year, the Supreme Court of India led that nsensual gay sex was not a crime the untry, followg a two--long legal 17 May this year, Taiwan's parliament legalised same-sex marriage, placg the island at the vanguard of Asia's gay rights movement.

SGAPORE’S LATT RULG ON GAY SEX IS ‘COLD COMFORT,’ ACTIVISTS SAY

The next day, dozens of same-sex upl were among the first to legally register their relatnships as 7 June, Bhutan's lower hoe of parliament voted to scrap laws crimalisg homosexualy, as the Asian natn tak a key step towards easg rtrictns on same-sex Sgapore, sex between men is illegal unr Sectn 377A of the Penal Co. The ernment has sisted the law isn’t actively enforced, and that the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny fac no discrimatn the LGBTQ muny Sgapore disagre wh the view, and has actively mpaigned for the repealg of the law. REUTERS/Fele Lim/File Photo Acquire Licensg RightsSINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Rters) - Sgapore's hight urt on Monday dismissed a challenge by three gay rights activists agast a law crimalisg sex between men, lg that sce thori did not enforce the law did not breach platiffs' nstutnal Court of Appeal's lg follows embolned efforts to get rid of the lonial-era law by activists after India scrapped siar legislatn four years ago.

SGAPORE SOCIETY STILL LARGELY NSERVATIVE BUT BEG MORE LIBERAL ON GAY RIGHTS: IPS SURVEY

Prev challeng the socially nservative cy-state 2020 and 2014 also activists who brought the latt challenge agast the rarely ed law, unr which offenrs n be jailed for up to two years, clud a retired doctor, a DJ and a former director of a non-prof a wrten judgment, Sgapore's Chief Jtice Sundarh Menon said that although the law, known as Sectn 377A, had "long been a lightng rod for polarisatn" the urt did not fd a breach of the law was "unenforceable" bee Sgapore thori do not plan to prosecute gay sex and th would not prive a person of the right to life or personal liberty unr Article 9 of Sgapore's nstutn, Menon Attorney-General’s Chambers has said such prosecutns would not be the public a statement, law firm Eugene Thuraisgam LLP, which reprented one of the activists, said the lg "may be seen as a small step the right directn" after the urt noted the law was legally unenforceable.

Although the threat of arrt has been removed and formalised by the urt, " clg to pletely strike out the law crimalisg same-sex timacy, gay and bisexual men Sgapore are still effectively un-apprehend crimals and subject to a culture of shame and homophobia", Brn 70 untri around the world crimalise gay sex, maly Ai and the Middle EastThe issue remas sensive Sgapore, though some polls show a greater acceptance of homosexualy.

Instead, the top urt said was not “an archect of social policy” and that any change was up to Lim/RtersThe Sgapore Court of Appeal, the untry’s top urt, cled Monday to overturn a law crimalizg gay sex, lg that three men who brought challeng did not have legal standg bee the ernment has pledged not to enforce the lonial-era rights advot had sought to overturn the law, known as Sectn 377A, argug that stigmatiz gay men and promot discrimatn.