On 5/24/16 12:31 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
It is only in the past three years that the IAOC has even really had a meaningful choice about whether to go to a country that recognized LGBT marital rights.
The problem with Singapore is not that marital/parental rights are not recognized. The problem is that Singapore has multiple laws that criminalize same-sex relationships between men and that their Supreme Court upheld those laws less than two years ago. This is, to my knowledge, unique among countries where the IETF has met. If the situation in Singapore is, in fact, hunky-dory, they have the option of making that clear by getting rid of those laws. Nobody has been able to provide any concrete assurances that a meeting participant's familial and parental rights would be protected while visiting Singapore, Barry Greene's giggles notwithstanding. The risks are unknown and the consequences are potentially quite serious. Melinda