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SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
” One petn sent to the Mistry of Jtice prophied, whout any evince, that “homosexuals will try to sce everyone” if the bill were to bee law. ” In May, a top adviser to Print Yoon said “homosexualy n be treated, ” like a smokg hab (he later rigned). Prottant Pastor Yonah Lee, a stnch supporter of Yoon’s polici, is often lled this untry’s facto “ex-gay” spokperson.
” Pastor Yonah Lee, center, leads an "ex-gay" march LifePastor Lee acknowledged that discrimatn agast LGBTQ dividuals is “wrong, ” but he argued that the Bible “nmns homosexualy” and baselsly claimed that an anti-discrimatn law that explicly protects LGBTQ people would “force church to close. Public OpnSurveys South Korea have revealed a prevalence of ristance towards LGBTQ+ Korea SurveysSupport for Transgenr Incln the Milary Of South Korean cizens agreed transgenr people should be allowed to serve the ary of Koreans would feel fortable wh a fay member that is a homosexual person of Koreans would feel fortable makg iends wh a homosexual person of Koreans would be fortable workg wh a homosexual person of Koreans know a Korean LGBT person Of people South Korea agreed that transgenr people should be able to have surgery to match their genr inty of Koreans oppose same-sex marriage support same-sex marriage of Koreans said they supported equal employment opportuni for LGBT peopleHistoryHomosexual activy South Korea?
Homosexual activy South Korea is Same-sex terurse is not illegal for civilians South Korea, but is between men the ary. Current statSce Aug 15, 1948Not legal There has been proposals to legalize gay marriage, but none have passed as of May 2022. State-enforcedThe Government of South Korea practiced censorship of gay ntent webs om 2001 to 2003, through s Informatn and Communitns Ethics Commtee, an official an of the Mistry of Informatn and to change legal genr South Korea?
SOUTH KOREA GAY RIGHTS
However, there are some signs that rtrictns on LGBTQ service members may be easg: In 2022, the South Korean Supreme Court overturned the nvictn of two soldiers for gay sex, and 2021, a district urt posthumoly restated a transgenr soldier who died by suici after beg dismissed om the donatns by MSMs South Korea? Asia Pacific|South Korea’s Supreme Court Issu Landmark Rulg on Gay Sex ADVERTISEMENTThe urt said that the ary should not punish nsensual sex acts that had taken place a nonary In-Chul/Yonhap, via Associated PrsSEOUL — The Supreme Court of South Korea issued a landmark lg agast the ary’s s-old ban on homosexual activi on Thursday, strikg down guilty verdicts for two male soldiers who were dicted on a charge of havg nsensual sex while off their Korea’s Milary Crimal Act lls for up to two years prison for “anal terurse or other cent acts.
Rights groups have long nmned the law, sayg perms a “wch hunt” agast gay soldiers. Punishg the two soldiers for this vlated “their sexual tonomy” and “the nstutnally guaranteed right to equaly and human digny, as well as their right to pursue happs, ” the top urt said on Thursday, sendg the se back to a lower ary rights groups hailed the verdict, llg “a major step forward” or “a huge victory” for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex people.
”Lim Tae-hoon, head of the Seoul-based Center for Milary Human Rights Korea, urged the untry’s Constutnal Court to follow up by lg the ary that outlaws gay sex unnstutnal.