Dpe growg ditns that the Sgapore ernment uld soon strike down a lonial-era anti-gay law, marriage equaly is unlikely to be next.
Contents:
- SGAPORE’S HIGH URT RETAS AN ANTI-GAY LAW
- SGAPORE UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE
SGAPORE’S HIGH URT RETAS AN ANTI-GAY LAW
Sgapore’s Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the untry will repeal the lonial-era Sectn 377A of Sgapore’s Penal Co, thereby crimalizg gay sex Sgapore, but add that same-sex marriage will ntue to be illegal the cy-state. * singapore anti gay law *
On Febary 28th the Court of Appeal dismissed a challenge brought by three gay-rights activists agast a law, datg om the lonial era, that crimalis sex between men. When parliament bated 377A 2007, Lee Hsien Loong, the prime mister, clared that would rema but would not be “proactively enforced” Lee argued that was necsary to strike a balance between acceptg gay men and rpectg society’s “tradnal” mor.
Though the lg seems a blow to gay Sgaporeans, is fact “a partial but signifint victory” for them, said one of the platiffs, bee the urt gave legal weight to the attorney-general’s will displease Sgapore’s many nservativ. But gay activists are also unhappy. Sgapore’s Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the untry will repeal the lonial-era Sectn 377A of Sgapore’s Penal Co, thereby crimalizg gay sex Sgapore, but add that same-sex marriage will ntue to be illegal the cy-state.
SGAPORE UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE
Sgapore’s high urt uld crimalise homosexualy, overturng a anti-gay lonial law stated 1938 unr Brish le. * singapore anti gay law *
This will brg the law to le wh current social mor, and I hope, provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans, ” said the Prime Mister. “Like every human society, we also have gay people our midst.