The legalisation of gay marriage in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands was blocked by a London court, marking a huge blow to LGBTQ+ equality.
The UK’s Privy Council sided with the government of Bermuda on the issue in an appeal of a local Supreme Court ruling in favour of marriage equality.
At the same time, it declared that the Constitution of the Cayman Islands does not give same-sex couples the right to get married there.
The history of marriage is “one of the stigmatisation, denigration and victimisation of gay people, and that the restriction of marriage to opposite-sex couples may create among gay people a sense of exclusion and stigma,” the Privy Council said in its judgement of the Bermuda case – which saw one judge dissent.