Greta75
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Would your press be able to report if your government disallowed such freedom of assembly? From what I'm reading, the notion of being able to freely assemble is relatively new in your "partly free" utopia. The newspaper has reported many times that government has rejected the license for people freedom to assemble for protest. Yes, you got to apply for a license to protest. When its rejected, it's published in the paper and official explanation to the nation why it is rejected. Our government believes alot in accountability. They always have to explain their actions thoroughly to us. But they are the ruling government so their decision is final and we are free to vote them out the next election if we disagree with their logic of rejection or their decision making logics. So far, I'm okay with everything. So are majority of 70% voters at this point. quote:
ORIGINAL: ifmaz Are you sure you want to proclaim the freedoms homosexuals enjoy (illegally, apparently)? The law is inaccurate. We have two interesting laws. 1) Sodomy is illegal for both men and women, and even if it's between a man and a woman. That is nothing against gays. Gay men in Singapore can french kiss and hold hands in public. That's perfect legal. That law your article mentioned specifically says no sodomy, it says nothing about 2 men. 2) It is also against the law to have oral sex, if it does not lead to penetrative sex. AGAIN, this law is for both men and women, and even IF it's between a man and woman. But unless anybody rat on themselves, nobody to my knowledge has ever been prosecuted for sodomy in my country or this oral sex thingy. Our country is against marriage of two same sex individuals. I am against it too. We just believe marriage is between a man and a woman. But we definitely do not prosecute homosexuals people here at all. (PS: I looked up on the section 377A law, I am unaware that we have that law, because if you come to Singapore, Gay men are so open. Holding hands and kissing publicly and live without fear. They could pass by a police and it's okay. Something about our country is, we have alot of archaic redundant law that they don't bother actively prosecuting but they also don't bother removing it. Before our founder died, he also mentioned that, the law should be removed if there is scientific evidence that, man to man sex is natural and not a choice. You got to understand, my country started off as a Muslim country, before it was officially even a country, so if we had archaic laws that reflected the indigenous Muslim people's opinion that haven't been removed, then, it takes time to slowly rid of them all.) Oh and Wikipedia blamed the British for this law BTW: Male homosexuality was outlawed under British rule (1819-1942) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Singapore ALL the homosexual prosecution were done by WHITE BRITISH RULERS! When they rule Singapore. We were a Brit Colony too. But seriously, no Singaporeans today would ever want gay people to be in jail for being gay. EVER! And the fact that we allowed a homosexual event Pink Dot to happened, Fully approved and license given by our government, tells you, homosexuality is okay over here. I mean, Pink Dot cannot be held without government approval at all. And for gawd's sake, we have gay clubs too!!! Legal gay clubs allowed to operate! One of our top celebrity comedian, Kumar, is openly gay, and talks alot about his gay sex encounters in his comedy. He would have been dead by now if my country is really not accepting of gay people. Instead, his a well loved comedian.
< Message edited by Greta75 -- 6/13/2016 11:40:12 PM >
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