Bermuda pastors key gay marriage referendum | Baptist Prs

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• BERMUDA PASTORS KEY GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM
• BERMUDA BE FIRST COUNTRY TO REPEAL GAY MARRIAGE
• BRISH URT L AGAST GAY MARRIAGE BERMUDA, CAYMAN ISLANDS

BERMUDA PASTORS KEY GAY MARRIAGE REFERENDUM

Ctly optimistic: lawyer Rod Attri-StirlgBermuda’s fal day urt to settle same-sex marriage has been set for early Attri-Stirlg, who reprents the gay rights anisatn OutBermuda along wh four other ligants on the issue, said last night the se would go before the Privy Council, Bra’s top urt, on Febary 3 and 4 next matter was sent on to the fal urt of appeal London after the Bermuda Government appealed a Bermuda Court of Appeal lg that opened the way for same-sex marriag Attri-Stirlg said the Privy Council se had ially been set down for December, but had to be phed forward for “a variety of schlg issu” lawyer, who has prevly scribed himself as “utly optimistic” for the se’s prospects, said yterday that even if the Privy Council overturned , “the change Bermudian society is already plete” add: “There has been a change on this issue at a fundamental level. Bermuda’s ernor has signed to law a bill reversg the right of gay upl to marry, spe a supreme urt lg last year thorisg same-sex Brown, Bermuda’s mister of home affairs, said the legislatn signed by Governor John Rank would balance opposn to same-sex marriage on the socially nservative island while plyg wh European urt lgs that ensure regnn and protectn for same-sex upl the terrory. “I feel enormoly disappoted, ” said Joe Gibbons, a 64-year-old married gay Bermudian.

The supreme urt lg on marriage equaly May 2017 was celebrated by Bermuda’s small gay muny, but also outraged many on the socially nservative island, cludg church lears, and thoands protted outsi signed his assent, Rank cled to ment beyond a brief statement: “After reful nsiratn le wh my rponsibili unr the nstutn, I have today given assent to the Domtic Partnership Act 2017. ”A lay Pentestal uple was noteworthy for publicly opposg the pro-gay marriage si’s slogan “love ws, ” Dill said. ”The path forward also clus passnate mistry to the homosexual muny, acrdg to Prerve Marriage.

Two gay men holdg their hands pated wh the lors of the LGBT movement on May 24, 2012. Brish judg have led that Bermuda’s ban on same-sex marriage is permted unr s nstutn, a setback for gay rights the Brish overseas UK’s judicial mtee of the privy uncil (JCPC) – the ultimate urt of appeal for Bermuda and dozens of other Brish overseas terrori, pennci and Commonwealth stat – on Monday overturned a cisn by Bermuda’s hight urt, which led the ban to be JCPC also led separately that there was no right to same-sex marriage unr the nstutn of the Cayman attorney general of Bermuda appealed to the JCPC after the untry’s urt of appeal and supreme urt held that sectn 53 of the island’s Domtic Partnership Act (DPA) 2018, which nf marriage to a unn between a man and a woman, was se attemptg to tablish the right to gay marriage had been brought by six people cludg Rorick Fergon, a gay Bermudian; Maryellen Jackson, a lbian Bermudian and the LGBTQ chary judg stg London allowed the attorney general’s appeal by a four-to-one the wrten judgment by Lord Hodge and Lady Arn, they said: “No rtrictn is placed on the worship, teachg, practice and observance of the rponnts which manifts their belief the validy of same-sex marriage. But the chary also raised ncerns about people who had already entered to gay marriag Bermuda, cludg when the DPA was se the Cayman Islands ncerned Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodn Bh, a lbian uple who were nied a marriage licence 2018 on the basis that marriage was fed the terrory’s bill of rights as “the unn between a man and a woman as hband and wife”.

BERMUDA BE FIRST COUNTRY TO REPEAL GAY MARRIAGE

That law only me to effect March of this year followg a seri of appeals that went all the way to the Privy Council date, Bermuda is the only untry the world to make gay marriag legal – and then roll back the law to make the practice her article, Ms Hope, a lbian and equent visor to Bermuda, wrote: “Of urse, the fact that our rights are up for bate at all is credibly tratg at bt and terrifyg at worst. Rod Attri-Stirlg (L), a lawyer who succsfully challenged legislatn banng gay marriage, pos for a photograph wh gay rights supporters Judh Aidoo-Salt (2nd L), Wston Godw (3rd L), Maryellen Jackson (3rd R), Zakiya Johnson Lord (2nd R) and Adrian Hartt-Beasley ont of urt after the hearg, Haton, Bermuda... Read moreMarch 14 (Rters) - A London tribunal on Monday led that a 2018 Bermuda law that bans same-sex marriage the Brish overseas terrory is nstutnal, a parture om the broad trend towards legalisatn of gay marriage the Wt.

BRISH URT L AGAST GAY MARRIAGE BERMUDA, CAYMAN ISLANDS

Thoands of people support the gay marriage ban. Most importantly though, would affirm the equaly of all Bermudians – gay and straight, relig and non-relig. Earlier this year, the Brish terrory ma the unprecented cisn to repeal the right of gay upl to marry - makg the first natn to extend and then revoke that right.

Same-sex marriage legalised across the USShow all 15Gay rights advot reacted to the cisn wh joy, sayg vdited the steady advancement of same-sex marriage Bryant qutns why the Government has allowed same-sex marriage to be outlawed Bermuda“This lg will enurage and empower legal challeng to crimalisatn and marriage equaly across the Caribbean, many of which are bound to succeed”, LGBT activist Peter Tatchell said a statement. HAMILTON, Bermuda () - After Bermuda's Hoe of Assembly and Senate voted to reverse so-lled same-sex marriage December, the ernor signed to the law on Wednday, makg Bermuda the first untry the world to roll back gay marriage.

Bermuda's ernor, John Rank, signed the measure to law after last year's Bermuda Supreme Court lg legalizg gay marriage. Same-sex upl n register for a domtic partnership unr the Domtic Partnership Act, while the nearly half-dozen gay marriag that occurred Bermuda last year are regnized unr the new law.