Most Singaporeans still support law banning gay sex - survey


  • World
  • Monday, 10 Sep 2018

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A slim majority of Singaporeans still support a law that bans gay sex, an online survey showed on Monday, amid renewed debate on whether the city-state should follow India's footsteps and scrap similar British colonial-era legislation.

Previous legal challenges to overturn the ban failed but a prominent Singapore diplomat called on the gay community to renew legal action against the law, a day after India's top court decriminalised gay sex in a landmark ruling.

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