Govt. defends decision on homosexuality
By Uditha Jayasinghe
The Government yesterday defended removing the decriminalisation of homosexuality from its National Human Rights Action Plan, insisting that it could be “misinterpreted” for legal reasons but bizarrely claimed that prosecution of homosexuals was rare and it would not infringe on sexual minorities.
Cabinet spokesman Dr. Rajitha Senaratne came in for a barrage of questions from the media during the weekly Cabinet b