Singapore will not allow same-sex marriages even as it moves to repeal a law that criminalizes sex between gay men, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced Sunday. The change comes as the country also plans to repeal a law that criminalizes gay sex.
that the law would be kept on the books but not be “proactively enforced,” as Lee described it in 2007. It would have been “too divisive” to decide anything otherwise, Lee said Sunday, leaving the nation with this “untidy compromise” for years.
"This took a whole lot of people, over decades … today we stand together to savour this moment,” Harpreet Singh, a lawyer who helped bring ait was “relieved and hopeful” to learn of the repeal. This can “be a chance to start healing the hurts that have taken place," it said. “These suggested constitutional changes will discriminate against LGBTQ families and partnerships who make important contributions to Singapore’s economy and society,” Chong said.
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