Out in the World: Activists decry Bermuda Privy Council's ruling against same-sex marriage
ebar.comJudges in Bermuda's highest court have found that legislation banning same-sex marriage is not unconstitutional.Activists in Bermuda were critical of the decision from the Privy Council.
The ruling was 4-1 and came in London after two days of hearings in the case between the attorney general and Roderick Ferguson and others.
Deputy President of the Supreme Court the Right Honorable Lord Patrick Stewart Hodge read the decision upholding the Bermuda government's ban on same-sex marriage.The Privy Council is the highest court of appeal for some British overseas territories, some Commonwealth nations, and a few bodies in the United Kingdom.
Supreme Court Justice the Right Honorable Lord Philip James Sales gave the dissenting statement. Sales believed that Section 8 of the constitution, freedom of consciousness, violated Section 53 of the Commonwealth's Domestic Partnership Act 2018.
