The change as the untry also plans to repeal a law that crimaliz gay sex.
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- SGAPORE’S SECTN 377A: LAWMAKERS VOTE TO LIFT GAY SEX BAN, RETA MARRIAGE STAT QUO
- HOMOSEXUALY TO BE LEGAL IN SGAPORE, BUT GAY MARRIAGE WILL HAVE TO WA
SGAPORE’S SECTN 377A: LAWMAKERS VOTE TO LIFT GAY SEX BAN, RETA MARRIAGE STAT QUO
Sgapore’s parliament on Tuday voted to simultaneoly crimalise gay sex and amend the nstutn to mata the stat-quo fn of marriage, endg months of public bate * 377a gay marriage *
AP Sgapore’s parliament on Tuday voted to simultaneoly crimalise gay sex and amend the nstutn to mata the stat-quo fn of marriage, endg months of public bate over the long-telegraphed legislative mov. 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.
HOMOSEXUALY TO BE LEGAL IN SGAPORE, BUT GAY MARRIAGE WILL HAVE TO WA
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. * 377a gay marriage *
“Like every human society, we also have gay people our midst.
It punish gay sex – even if is nsensual, between adults, and tak place privately – for up to two years of imprisonment.
Sgapore, known for s nservative valu, has recent years seen many people llg for lonial-era Sectn 377A, which banned gay sex, to be repealed. * 377a gay marriage *
In Febary 2022, Sgapore’s Court of Appeal led that the sectn would rema the law, but nnot be enforced to prosecute men for havg gay sex.
Lee said: “We need to fd the right way to rencile and acmodate both the tradnal mor of our society, and the aspiratn of gay Sgaporeans to be rpected and accepted. 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. After years of bate, Sgapore is set to abolish the lonial-era 377A law that bans gay sex.
The move will effectively make homosexualy legal the cy-state. This effectively means approval to gay marriage is led out for now. Lee also said Sgaporean society, pecially the young, were more acceptg of gay people now, and that scrappg 377A would brg the laws le wh "current social mor, and I hope, provi some relief to gay Sgaporeans".
* 377a gay marriage *
Sgapore will not allow same-sex marriag even as mov to repeal a law that crimaliz sex between gay men, Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong announced ernment plans to amend the untry’s nstutn to lim s fn of marriage to between a man and a woman, and protect that fn om urt challenge. “Sectn 377A relegat our gay iends and relativ to send class cizenship by signalg that what they do, and who they are, is nmnable and wrong, ” reads the webse for the anizatn Ready 4 Repeal. SINGAPORE — Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) rights groups said on Sunday (Aug 21) that the Government's move to repeal Sectn 377A of the Penal Co was long overdue, scribg the prime mister's announcement of the cisn as a "historic moment".
Profsor Roy Chen om Actn for Aids (AfA) Sgapore said a statement that the anisatn will "work to crease and strengthen efforts to elimate the stigma and discrimatn faced by gay and other men who have sex wh men, and the wir LGBTQ muni accsg early diagnosis and re for human immunoficiency vis (HIV) fectn, sexually transmted diseas (STD) and other health challeng".