Prime Minister Theresa May has called on all Commonwealth countries to decriminalize same-sex marriage, saying the practice of punishing people based on sexual orientation was wrong.
“Across the world discriminatory laws made many years ago continue to affect the lives of many people, criminalizing same sex relations and failing to protect women and girls, I am all to aware that these laws were often put in place by my own country, They were wrong then and they are wrong now” May said.
When the week-long Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) got underway on Monday, campaigners launched a petition calling for Britain to apologize for colonial era laws which outlaw same-sex activity in 37 of the 53 member nations. Some impose the death penalty for such offences.
“As United Kingdom’s Prime Minister I deeply regret both the fact that such laws were introduced and the legacy of discrimination violence and even death that persists today,” May told the meeting in London.
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