Given how contentious the issue of Section 377A is, it wasn’t surprising that Monday’s debate on a Bill repealing the law that criminalises sex between men – and another Bill amending the Constitution to protect the definition of marriage from legal challenges – went on for over six hours, with more to come on Tuesday.
There was one notable difference in approach: The ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) did not lift the Whip for its Members to vote according to their conscience, but the Workers’ Party (WP) did.
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