Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs has been mulling the first major legal reform in 22 years. Though they're looking to modernize their legislative system, they're intent on retaining the anti-gay Section 377, which forbids anal and oral sex.

A group of lawyers, Fridae reports, have issued a statement insisting officials would do well to dismantle the colonial era law:

The majority of the Council considered that the retention of s.377A in its present form cannot be justified... Private consensual homosexual conduct between adults does not cause harm recogniseable by the criminal law. Thus, regardless of one’s personal view of the morality or otherwise of such conduct, it should not be made a criminal offence.

The report also highlighted the government's own hestitancy on the matter. Not only were officials split on whether or not to discard the law, but those who favored it claimed it would not be enforced. Of this, the law council wrote, "The retention of unprosecuted offenses on the statute book runs the risk of bringing the law into disrepute.". Despite their disavowal of Section 377, the lawyers maintain they are not endorsing homosexuality. They're simply fighting for "the separation of law and morals". Gotta start somewhere, huh?