<story><title>Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-2022-08-21/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DominikPeters</author><text>Apparently this comes in a package with a constitutional amendment that enshrines marriage as exclusively opposite-sex, which will make legalising same-sex marriage harder down the road.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;kixes&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1561334527808929793&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;kixes&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1561334527808929793&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, prime minister says</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-2022-08-21/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pydry</author><text>I suspect they never did care about this issue at all but they&amp;#x27;re trying to walk a tightrope trying not to piss off foreign investors (IIRC Goldman Sachs partners had something to say about this law) and the core PAP voter base, which tends to skew heavily in favor of &amp;quot;conservative&amp;#x2F;family values&amp;quot; and against this.&lt;p&gt;Then again, times may be a a-changing.</text></comment>