That means we don’t have to believe what you believe.

It can be ordained by god if that couple chooses so, but that is not a requirement.
Your statement is wrong.

Can you please explain how, exactly, this would infringe on anyone’s rights?

As for how they are being mistreated?

They were granted equality and that was taken away.
Domestic Partnerships are not equal to marriage.
Treating citizens as less than equal is wrong.

Religion is a personal choice and should only affect the people who believe that religion, especially when it harms people.

In other words, something being against your religion means that you don’t get to do it. Not everyone else

Not one of these arguments is valid and has been shown to be false many, many times.

And we DO have plenty of evidence that Marriage Equality has no detrimental effects on society.
All the places that have it have seen no negative effects from it. And it’s been years and years.

If so, then why does it matter?

They’re Bermudian.

My bad. I hadn’t heard.

Not a single one of your posts on this topic has ever been correct.

You are hurting people. Please stop.

It’s bad for our country.

The story is Jack and Jill went up the hill, not Jack and Bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So where are we now? SS Bermudians and residents can simply purchase an airline ticket to the USA, Canada, the UK, and a host of other countries where they can legally marry then immediately return to Bermuda and live their lives as a married couple in every sense of the word. They can now enter into a Domestic Partnership which entitles them to all the privileges of marriage. The only right they will continue to be denied is not to actually marry on Island – a right that heterosexuals will unequally continue to enjoy.

The end result is that Preserve Marriage has failed in both their objectives.

Now Government is facing a legal action with the potential of having to pay thousands of dollars in legal costs, and to what avail?

This is a hollow victory at best for PM and may also prove to be an expensive waste of taxpayers dollars at worst.

And all because same sex couples were seeking the basic human right to make a lifelong commitment to the person they love.

Beautiful homegrown bigotry on display.

Ha ha. Well done!!

We’ve already seen how a departure from that traditional unit has resulted in many social problems. Am i saying that SSM will? I don’t know- we don’t have any long term data to know. But we do know that the unit we should strive for is failing and therefore our society is failing.

The reason we uphold traditional marriage is for the benefit of society as a whole. It has nothing to do with government wanting to celebrate your love. It has everything to do with encouraging stability in the traditional family unit which therefore carries on to society.

The hypocrties that incite the hate I think will be in that line and our maker will be the judge–not the church or Gvt!!!

The political and foreign funded move by Preserve Marriage to eliminate marriage equality in Bermuda is a brutal wake up call on the significant illusion of Diversity and Inclusion in our small island community.

We now rank people in Bermuda and then developed legislation to promote and support our ranking structures – we are creating new ‘isms’ in our world.

Interesting to note that we can’t keep a pedophile off our streets who is a clear and present danger yet we can eliminate marriage equality in an instant by changing legislation.

We may be open for business with the budget today however for many looking in to Bermuda or speaking out from Bermuda we know it is situational, transitional and open to political influence regardless of court rulings and the rule of law.

Don’t blame the person representing the victim. The PLP knew if they passed a discriminatroy law that there would be legal challenges. You can’t blame the people fighting for their rights.

We continue to be the laughing stock.

All they want is to drink at the same water fountain as everyone else.

If you think you are going to be disrespectful of my post – please keep your negative comments to yourselves. I am just trying to understand this segments plight in all of this.

Let actiona and $$ speak louder than the shrill, bigoted words.

Start a contrubtion fund–crowd fund–let everyone that finds this Gvt’s approach to the removal of rights offensive donate a few bucks to the cause.

A successful funding outcome with draw a line under the topic and show the bigots that they are not in the moral majority.