Sgapore’s high urt uld crimalise homosexualy, overturng a anti-gay lonial law stated 1938 unr Brish le.
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- 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.
SGAPORE UPHOLDS COLONIAL ANTI-GAY LAWS: BEG GAY REMAS ILLEGAL FOR 5.7 MILLN PEOPLE
* singapore anti gay law *
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. 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.