A large political faction in Malaysia is backing a bill that would intensify punishments based on religious law. It covers moral infractions, such as same-sex romantic encounters and increases public caning punishments from a few lashes to up to 100. While caning is not painful, it is humiliating. The World’s Patrick Winn reports that some people in the Muslim-majority country worry the public is becoming too accepting of homosexuality.
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