{"id":8383,"date":"2022-08-21T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T13:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-lee-hsien-loong\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T13:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T13:47:56","slug":"singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-lee-hsien-loong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"Singapore will decriminalise sex between men: PM Lee Hsien Loong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, the prime minister said on Sunday, adding that society in the city-state was becoming more accepting of gays.<\/p>\n<p>But he added that the government had no intention of changing the city-state&#8217;s legal definition of marriage, which is between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Repealing Section 377A (National Day Rally 2022)\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lURfW4a1IcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think this is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will now accept,&#8221; Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual National Day rally speech, adding that the government will repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial law.  it was the law that criminalized sex between men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if we repeal Section 377A, we will maintain and safeguard the institution of marriage&#8230; Under the law, only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized in Singapore,&#8221; Lee added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/singapore-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-lee-hsien-loong-8103558\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, the prime minister said on Sunday, adding that society in the city-state was becoming more accepting of gays. But he added that the government had no intention of changing the city-state&#8217;s legal definition of marriage, which is between a man and a woman. &#8220;I think this is the right thing to do, and something that most Singaporeans will now accept,&#8221; Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his annual National Day rally speech, adding that the government will repeal Section 377A of the penal code, a colonial law. it was the law that criminalized&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}