Should homosexual couples be allowed to get married in Singapore?
There has been a lot of debate on homosexuality recently. Do you think Singapore should one day take the step to legalise gay marriages in Singapore? Would this have a negative impact on society?
I felt that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. If two people love each others, they should be given a chance to tie the knot. Again, its our surrounding that makes us negative about homosexual couples. We are way too conservative. I dont think Singapore going to legalise homosexual marriage in the near future. But this law going to be legalised in the future. We can see MPs trying to fight for the law to be legalised. And if you take a look in our surrounding, its not hard to find homosexual couples. Instead of denying them, We should try to accept them. Its hard to determine that there will not be any negative impact on society but as long as we treat them as part of society, it'll be soon that they are treated like normal couples.
They should not be ostracise by the society because of their imbalance. Its time they gain acceptance in the society as the world now is always talking about human rights.
Hence i don't see a point that doesn't makes homosexual human beings as well.
They should be given rights to choose the kind of life they want.Therefore Singapore should legalised homosexual marriage.
However the impact is rather negative as it educate the wrong values to the younger generations but in this present world, nothing seems unacceptable. As long the younger generations are being taught to be responsible, the ultimate decisions still lies with them.
Yes, homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. These is entirely same as love. If both parties male and female truely love each other they are given chance to be get married and be together. WHY can't homosexual be like these too? Isn't this unfair to them? We all should try to accept their existence and treat them normally.
I think homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. Why? Cause I see nothing wrong in allowing two people who are in love to be (legally) together.
Well I reckon more and more Singaporeans are starting to accept homosexuality. Yes they should, but I highly doubt Singapore Government will legalize homosexual marriages any sooner.
Negative impact? It depends on how one judge. On children, maybe yes. Cause it teaches them the wrong moral values. But as they grow older, I think they should try to understand and accept it.
wow! This class is really very open about homosexuality. Yes, there was a very heated debate in parliament on whether or not to remove penal code 377A. If you were the PM, would you allow this? What would be some your considerations before legalising sexual relationships between homosexuals?
Homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. I don't see anything wrong having two persons sharing their love with each other.
This has become an issue due to the nature of human beings that are too conservative in their way of thinking.
I believe that as a person they have their own rights to choose who they want to be with and there is no restriction to that in human rights.
Much said, there will be impact on the younger generations inevitably, but we as the current generations should be teaching the younger generations how to be responsible in understanding this issue.
I feel that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in singapore. I think that couple of the same sex should be given the choice to get married as i dont see any difference betweeen normal ones and homosexual ones getting married as long as they love each other. singapore should legalise homosexual marriage. i believe that singapore did not allow homosexual marriage because other countries did not accept it too. if singapore accept it first, i believe other countries will accept it too. A person have their own rights to love whom they wan to married the government should not interfere.Therefore i think homosexual marriage should be allowed.
they should be allowed because we are not a religious country unlike some other countries. if there is love and chemistry between the 2, why not? it must NOT be a definate a MALE and Female. perhaps SG needs some homosexual couple to change some people's mindsets.
"whether or not to remove penal code 377A. If you were the PM, would you allow this?"
he government should remove because firstly, we are not a religious country, secondly as said in the Singapore pledge, Pledge Ourselves As One United People. so i think having this law shows them that they are being left out and there is no place in Singapore. i think we should respect them.
nope i dont think homosexual couples should marry.It is because singapore population is already low if more and more homsexual couples get marry but not normal couples there will be a decrease in birth rate which is an important issues.
i agree to having homosexual marriage as there is nothing that make me feel that it is wrong. it is only now people that will feel strange when seeing 2 people of the same sex behaving strangly close, but when it gets more common, the feeling will disappear. so it is better to be allowed so that less people will give strange looks to homosexuals making them look like they are not human.
No. I dont think homosexual couples should be allowed to marry in Singapore. If Singapore is to legalise homosexuals, the future generations will be greatly influenced and believe that homosexuality is right. Besides, humans are to go with their opposite sex, instead of the same. Can you imagine a street full of couples with same sex hugging and kissing one another? Wouldnt it be gross to see that? Yes. We all post comments that we agreed on homosexuals in Singapore, but when it comes to the real thing, u see gays kissing in front of you, can you treat them as normal people? Or will start laughing at them.
Well, yes, we pledge ourselves as one united people...but can we be united about everything?
Sometimes the issue may not just be about equality but the common good of society. Community above self may be more important? So if the community cannot accept it, maybe we should not push it. Just a thought.
I agree to a certain extent that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. The fact that life won’t be complete without a lifetime partner applies to every single individual no matter what gender they are. Like any other couple, homosexual couples shall be treated equally as heterosexual couples.
Nowadays, homosexuality is becoming a happening phenomenon. I have seen homosexual couples kissing in the public. One of the reasons that I can think of as to why people are homosexual is they are from the single gender school that leads to them being homosexual.
I also learnt that some people do not have a choice to choose whether they want to be born “normal” or not. This is the website that I find out some do not have a choice over what they want (third post of the following website):
To answer Ms Esther Song’s question, if I am the PM, I would allow this, make sure that everyone is treated equally and there won’t be tension among anyone about this issue. However, I will still be caught in a difficult position as to whether there is a need to legalize homosexual marriage or not as there are still quite a number of people who strongly oppose the legalizing of homosexual marriage. If it is legalized, will it be desirable or undesirable? Will more of these problems arise in the future?
Being a PM, we have to think the community as a whole.
I think that homosexual couples should be married in Singapore because if both parities can get along and love each other , there should not be a problem. In addition, if Singapore reject this , those who were born homosexually naturally , they will never have the chance to find their right partner and there will be no happiness . one cant be possible to remove them from their homosexual nature because they are born with it. It seem pretty unfair for them to stand no chance to love someone truly and live with their own partner when they want to be together. however one have to face it own conscience.
I think that same-sex marriage is an unpractical consideration in this modern age of globalization as many people still possess the traditional mindset of homosexuals, and how it clashes with their beliefs. If same-sex marriages are accepted in this age of globalization, many people would avoid them, and hence worsening the case of homosexual discrimination. However, same-sex marriage might be possible in the near future, when the mindset of the society advances along with globalization and no longer possess their traditional way of thinking.
I think Singapore should one day take the step to legalise gay marriages in Singapore. Very simple, gays are human. Why can't they have the same lives like normal couples? Today couples can get married, so should gay couples. They have all the rights to do that. If not, i think it's very unfair to them. Yes, i believe it would have a negative impact on society. But only for a time being. It is because i believe some people might not be able to accept the fact that gays couple are allowed to get married. But after all this, everything will be very normal. And we actually won't have to care whether it's has a positive or negative impact on society.
For my point of view on this topic, I have a neutral stand. I agreed on allowing homosexual couples to get married in Singapore because I think that they are also considered couples, should deserve to have the life they want. If they are happy to be together, what’s wrong to get married? Thinking on a different viewpoint, I disagreed on allowing homosexual couples to get married because it will affect the annual birth rate of a country, the population will definitely decrease and it will also influence the country’s development. Although, the government discourages homosexuals in this society, they are given more freedom.
There were something decided by god when we just borned.As a normal student,I support homosexual couples be allowed to get married in Singapore.About the details,I do not think it is necessary to eleborate further more. However,if I am the PM,that will be different case.Other than the low birth rate,it may effect Singapore's reputation.If Singapore is reported with one of the highest homosexual rates,people from other countries will start to avoid Singapore.It will indirectly affect Singapore's income.In this open society,if homosexual marriaged is allow,the homosexual rates in Singapore will no doubt increases.
I feel that homosexuals should be granted marriage because they love their partner like how a straight couple love each other. The only issue is that homosexuals cannot reproduce a young of their own. However, homosexual couples can adopt a child or they can go through intracytoplasmic sperm injection, so they can still live like straight couples.
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I felt that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. If two people love each others, they should be given a chance to tie the knot. Again, its our surrounding that makes us negative about homosexual couples. We are way too conservative.
I dont think Singapore going to legalise homosexual marriage in the near future. But this law going to be legalised in the future. We can see MPs trying to fight for the law to be legalised. And if you take a look in our surrounding, its not hard to find homosexual couples. Instead of denying them, We should try to accept them. Its hard to determine that there will not be any negative impact on society but as long as we treat them as part of society, it'll be soon that they are treated like normal couples.
Homosexuals too are human beings.
They should not be ostracise by the society because of their imbalance. Its time they gain acceptance in the society as the world now is always talking about human rights.
Hence i don't see a point that doesn't makes homosexual human beings as well.
They should be given rights to choose the kind of life they want.Therefore Singapore should legalised homosexual marriage.
However the impact is rather negative as it educate the wrong values to the younger generations but in this present world, nothing seems unacceptable. As long the younger generations are being taught to be responsible, the ultimate decisions still lies with them.
Yes, homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. These is entirely same as love. If both parties male and female truely love each other they are given chance to be get married and be together. WHY can't homosexual be like these too? Isn't this unfair to them? We all should try to accept their existence and treat them normally.
I think homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. Why? Cause I see nothing wrong in allowing two people who are in love to be (legally) together.
Well I reckon more and more Singaporeans are starting to accept homosexuality. Yes they should, but I highly doubt Singapore Government will legalize homosexual marriages any sooner.
Negative impact? It depends on how one judge. On children, maybe yes. Cause it teaches them the wrong moral values. But as they grow older, I think they should try to understand and accept it.
wow! This class is really very open about homosexuality. Yes, there was a very heated debate in parliament on whether or not to remove penal code 377A. If you were the PM, would you allow this? What would be some your considerations before legalising sexual relationships between homosexuals?
Homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. I don't see anything wrong having two persons sharing their love with each other.
This has become an issue due to the nature of human beings that are too conservative in their way of thinking.
I believe that as a person they have their own rights to choose who they want to be with and there is no restriction to that in human rights.
Much said, there will be impact on the younger generations inevitably, but we as the current generations should be teaching the younger generations how to be responsible in understanding this issue.
I feel that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in singapore.
I think that couple of the same sex should be given the choice to get married as i dont see any difference betweeen normal ones and homosexual ones getting married as long as they love each other.
singapore should legalise homosexual marriage. i believe that singapore did not allow homosexual marriage because other countries did not accept it too.
if singapore accept it first, i believe other countries will accept it too.
A person have their own rights to love whom they wan to married the government should not interfere.Therefore i think homosexual marriage should be allowed.
they should be allowed because we are not a religious country unlike some other countries. if there is love and chemistry between the 2, why not? it must NOT be a definate a MALE and Female. perhaps SG needs some homosexual couple to change some people's mindsets.
"whether or not to remove penal code 377A. If you were the PM, would you allow this?"
he government should remove because firstly, we are not a religious country, secondly as said in the Singapore pledge, Pledge Ourselves As One United People. so i think having this law shows them that they are being left out and there is no place in Singapore. i think we should respect them.
nope i dont think homosexual couples should marry.It is because singapore population is already low if more and more homsexual couples get marry but not normal couples there will be a decrease in birth rate which is an important issues.
i agree to having homosexual marriage as there is nothing that make me feel that it is wrong. it is only now people that will feel strange when seeing 2 people of the same sex behaving strangly close, but when it gets more common, the feeling will disappear. so it is better to be allowed so that less people will give strange looks to homosexuals making them look like they are not human.
No. I dont think homosexual couples should be allowed to marry in Singapore. If Singapore is to legalise homosexuals, the future generations will be greatly influenced and believe that homosexuality is right. Besides, humans are to go with their opposite sex, instead of the same. Can you imagine a street full of couples with same sex hugging and kissing one another? Wouldnt it be gross to see that? Yes. We all post comments that we agreed on homosexuals in Singapore, but when it comes to the real thing, u see gays kissing in front of you, can you treat them as normal people? Or will start laughing at them.
Well, yes, we pledge ourselves as one united people...but can we be united about everything?
Sometimes the issue may not just be about equality but the common good of society. Community above self may be more important? So if the community cannot accept it, maybe we should not push it. Just a thought.
I agree to a certain extent that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married in Singapore. The fact that life won’t be complete without a lifetime partner applies to every single individual no matter what gender they are. Like any other couple, homosexual couples shall be treated equally as heterosexual couples.
Nowadays, homosexuality is becoming a happening phenomenon. I have seen homosexual couples kissing in the public. One of the reasons that I can think of as to why people are homosexual is they are from the single gender school that leads to them being homosexual.
I also learnt that some people do not have a choice to choose whether they want to be born “normal” or not. This is the website that I find out some do not have a choice over what they want (third post of the following website):
http://app.reach.gov.sg/reach/YourSay/YourDiscussionCorner/tabid/117/ptid/414/page/2/totrecs/1650/threadid/201/forumtype/posts/Default.aspx
To answer Ms Esther Song’s question, if I am the PM, I would allow this, make sure that everyone is treated equally and there won’t be tension among anyone about this issue. However, I will still be caught in a difficult position as to whether there is a need to legalize homosexual marriage or not as there are still quite a number of people who strongly oppose the legalizing of homosexual marriage. If it is legalized, will it be desirable or undesirable? Will more of these problems arise in the future?
Being a PM, we have to think the community as a whole.
I think that homosexual couples should be married in Singapore because if both parities can get along and love each other , there should not be a problem. In addition, if Singapore reject this , those who were born homosexually naturally , they will never have the chance to find their right partner and there will be no happiness . one cant be possible to remove them from their homosexual nature because they are born with it. It seem pretty unfair for them to stand no chance to love someone truly and live with their own partner when they want to be together. however one have to face it own conscience.
I think that same-sex marriage is an unpractical consideration in this modern age of globalization as many people still possess the traditional mindset of homosexuals, and how it clashes with their beliefs. If same-sex marriages are accepted in this age of globalization, many people would avoid them, and hence worsening the case of homosexual discrimination. However, same-sex marriage might be possible in the near future, when the mindset of the society advances along with globalization and no longer possess their traditional way of thinking.
I think Singapore should one day take the step to legalise gay marriages in Singapore. Very simple, gays are human. Why can't they have the same lives like normal couples? Today couples can get married, so should gay couples. They have all the rights to do that. If not, i think it's very unfair to them. Yes, i believe it would have a negative impact on society. But only for a time being. It is because i believe some people might not be able to accept the fact that gays couple are allowed to get married. But after all this, everything will be very normal. And we actually won't have to care whether it's has a positive or negative impact on society.
For my point of view on this topic, I have a neutral stand. I agreed on allowing homosexual couples to get married in Singapore because I think that they are also considered couples, should deserve to have the life they want. If they are happy to be together, what’s wrong to get married? Thinking on a different viewpoint, I disagreed on allowing homosexual couples to get married because it will affect the annual birth rate of a country, the population will definitely decrease and it will also influence the country’s development. Although, the government discourages homosexuals in this society, they are given more freedom.
There were something decided by god when we just borned.As a normal student,I support homosexual couples be allowed to get married in Singapore.About the details,I do not think it is necessary to eleborate further more.
However,if I am the PM,that will be different case.Other than the low birth rate,it may effect Singapore's reputation.If Singapore is reported with one of the highest homosexual rates,people from other countries will start to avoid Singapore.It will indirectly affect Singapore's income.In this open society,if homosexual marriaged is allow,the homosexual rates in Singapore will no doubt increases.
I feel that homosexuals should be granted marriage because they love their partner like how a straight couple love each other. The only issue is that homosexuals cannot reproduce a young of their own. However, homosexual couples can adopt a child or they can go through intracytoplasmic sperm injection, so they can still live like straight couples.
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