An Appeal To Stop Same-Sex Marriage Has Opened In The Cayman Islands
Just a few months after a judge ruled same-sex marriage to be legal in the Cayman Islands, an appeal has been opened to ban it.
A lesbian couple went to court last year after they were refused to marry on the islands, and won.
In the initial ruling, Chief Justice Anthony Smellie said: “This Court is… bound not to allow the violation of the Petitioners’ rights to continue without redress.
“The Constitution, in its mandatory requirement that the Law be brought into conformity, must prevail. The Petitioners and their daughter are entitled to the indignities to which they have been subjected being put to an immediate end by the Court.”
And now that the appeal has opened, one of the couple's lawyer said: “Marriage is a fundamental human right. It feels highly inappropriate to force (the couple) through a further appeal process when the chief justice in the case in the high court was clear that they were entitled to marry,”.
So far, Bermuda is the only country in the world to have banned same-sex marriage after legalizing it. However, Bermuda’s Court of Appeal ruled once again that same-sex marriage would remain legal.
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