Singapore to repeal colonial era law criminalizing sex between men, says prime minister

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“Sex between consenting men should not be criminalized. There is no justification to prosecute people for it, nor to make it a crime,” Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said at his annual policy address.

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said the country will repeal the colonial-era Section 377A of Singapore's Penal Code, thereby decriminalizing gay sex in Singapore, but added that same-sex marriage will continue to be illegal in the city-state.

"Sex between consenting men should not be criminalized. There is no justification to prosecute people for it, nor to make it a crime," he said at his annual policy address, the National Day Rally, carried live on television. "I believe is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will now accept. This will bring the law into line with current social mores, and I hope, provide some relief to gay Singaporeans," said the Prime Minister.

 

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Free Singapore, San Francisco style, by educating the use of 2D4D Ratio. They will be forever changed knowing how very few of their family, friends and collegues are actually hetero.

Main sheet media’s owners should be criminalized (citizens have enough bullets - as corrupted judges do not count) for promoting and normalising the pedophile agenda through ABCD+ tollerance that somehow occurs only in „developed” countries. Uneducated puppets will follow. pedos

The behavior in public with that shameful parade and immorality are to be prosecuted,the rest who care what they want and love

dear god, find cures for disease first. then allow same sex relations. i'm tired of watching familly and friends die to this cause.

“I’m never going to Singapore.”

there can not be sex between same gender. find another name to use

To anyone religious (like me): leave judgment to God.

Just get the monkey pox shot.

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