SINGAPORE: The definition of marriage and related policies should not be determined by the courts, Minister for Social and Family Development Masagos Zulkifli said in Parliament on Monday .
"This Government will not use our current super-majority in Parliament to tie the hands of the future generations," said Mr Masagos. Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, leader of the People's Action Party's fourth generation or 4G team, also said that the Government would not change these"under his watch" if the PAP wins the next General Election, noted Mr Masagos.
The court's function was not to settle political questions or rule on social norms and values, nor to engage with the political, social, ethical and other dimensions of the issues, he added. "We also continue to protect all from scorn and harm. This includes homosexuals who are members of our society, our kith, our kin," he said.
"As a society, regardless of your views on marriage, family or homosexuality, no one should feel unsafe expressing your views, or fear being cancelled, bullied or discriminated against. The Housing and Development Board can implement public housing policies that give preference to married couples When regulating media content, the Infocomm Media Development Authority is guided by principles that include prevailing social norms and valuesThe Article will also provide that nothing in Part 4 of the Constitution - which sets out the eight fundamental liberties - will invalidate any legislative definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Laws and executive actions also cannot be invalidated by Part 4 just because they are based on a heterosexual definition of marriage.
He added that such exceptions to the fundamental liberties already exist, pointing to articles that exempt any law regarding Group Representation Constituencies or the Internal Security Act from being invalidated by them.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Societal values should be determined by society and what it values as a whole and in part how compromises are made in wisdom and balance
Agree
We wouldn’t need to go to the courts if the gahmen is doing something about it. The public already don’t care about the traditional definition, so why isn’t the gahmen doing anything and instead are held ransom by the religious groups?
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