Gay professor can bring his partner after NUS giving go
ahead!!He is assured by MM Lee open but not specified assurance
that
...MM
Lee had said in an interview last year that while Singapore wanted
to maintain its social norms, the Government should not pry on
consenting adults.
'We must take cognisance of the contemporary world that has become
more accommodating...
'Homosexuals are mostly born that way, and no public purpose is
served by interfering in their private lives,' said Mr Lee in an
interview published last July.
To Prof Sieh, who was on sabbatical at Nanyang Technological
University here last year, this was enough to show that attitudes
towards homosexuality here were changing.
'I'm no crusader, but I'm going to be myself,' he said.
Prof Sieh said the issue of whether he could take his partner with
him was the first one he raised with NTU when the university
approached him with an offer in October.
When NTU told him it had no objections, the 57-year-old
said 'yes' to the job of founding director at NTU's Earth
Observatory of Singapore....
http://app.mfa.gov.sg/pr/read_content.asp?View,9681,
''MM's
reassuring comments seal researcher's move here''
By Chang Ai-Lien ,Strait Times.
March
29, 2008
2.SG has opened the door wider.
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