Sgapore gay sex: untry to repeal lonial era law crimalizg sex between men, says prime mister | CNN

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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. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).

In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party. And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important. Among Israelis, those who say relign is not very important their liv are almost three tim more likely than those who say relign is very important to say that society should accept homosexualy.

Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. 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.

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 marriage. 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.

8 per cent five years Leonard Lim, one of the paper’s thors, told TODAY that, while the survey rults pot to a growg acceptance of gay sex as well as other matters surroundg gay rights, most Sgaporeans rema opposed to the issu. “We nnot say for certa when the sl will be tipped favour of gay rights Sgapore, but if prent trends ntue, may not be very long before that tak place, ” said Mr Lim, a rearch associate at IPS, a Sgapore-based thk-tank.

Notwhstandg the “thawg” attus towards homosexualy, Mr Lim and his -thors, Dr Mathew Mathews and Ms Shanthi Selvarajan, said that there is ntued strong opposn to fily and than six 10 Sgaporeans (63. 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.