Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche led the fight for gay ‘marriage’ in Bermuda.
BERMUDA, December 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – After instituting same-sex “marriage” less than a year ago, Bermuda is quickly moving toward overturning the new law. If the tiny island nation succeeds, it will be the first country in the world to return to marriage defined solely between a man and a woman.
Same-sex “marriage” became law in Bermuda earlier this year via judicial fiat.
Members of the Bermuda House of Assembly voted late last week by a 24-10 margin to approve the “Domestic Partnership Act,” which would offer domestic partnerships rather than marriage to same-sex couples.
The bill would give “the LGBTQ community the benefits it has been asking for” while maintaining the “the traditional definition of marriage,” according to MP Lawrence Scott in a report filed by Bermuda’s Royal Gazette. “As it stands now, they can have the name marriage but without the benefits. But after this Bill passes, they have the benefits and just not the name marriage. The benefits are what they really want.”
MP Wayne Furbert said, “I support it because at the end of the day it removes
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