Documented public reaction to then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong’s comments in the 7 July 2003 issue of Time (Asia) magazine about homosexuals that “…some people are born that way. We are born this way and they are born that way, but they are like you and me.” He also stated that gays would now be allowed to serve in ‘sensitive positions’ in the Civil Service.

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