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Charity commissioners are still deciding whether to recommend the renewal of Preserve Marriage’s charitable status, which ran out on April 5. The Royal Gazette understands that the committee failed to reach a decision at its last meeting and will loo...

Two referendums take place that impact Bermuda’s future, with residents only having a say in one of them. While the island is failing to answer the question of whether we should allow same-sex marriages and civil unions, Britain is voting to withdraw...

More than 30 objections were made about Preserve Marriage’s application to become a charity, but the island’s charity commissioners won’t release the details. The statutory board which decides on applications for charitable status denied a public acc...

A judge has ruled that Preserve Marriage will be able to play a part in an upcoming judicial review case about same-sex marriage. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said that the charity, which opposes same-sex marriage on religious grounds, could joi...

Opponents of same-sex marriage have been “blacklisted” by businesses and fear repercussions from the LGBT community for their views, a court heard yesterday. Delroy Duncan, lawyer for Preserve Marriage, made the claim in the Supreme Court, as he argu...

I joined my high school’s gay-straight alliance when I was 14 and became its co-president the next year. In college, I led the Queer Student Union and in 2005, my full-colour photograph graced the front page of the local newspaper for National Coming...

Dear Sir, The results of the June 23 referendum — where many Bermudians expressed opposition to same-sex marriage — have certainly sparked much debate about the future of same-sex marriage in Bermuda. However, they are a fundamentally inappropriate ...

The issue of same-sex marriage must be addressed with due consideration for every human being, but we are not the only country who has faced this issue. There are several countries around the world that recognise same-sex marriage: Argentina, Canada,...

Dear Sir, This is an open letter to the lovely people of Bermuda. As a minister in New Jersey and a frequent visitor to Bermuda, I have come to see that God makes us humans with diverse abilities in ways that we may not fully understand.We are given ...

Preserve Marriage has called for a “bundle of benefits” to bestow new legal rights on same-sex couples, while denying them marriage or civil unions. However Adrian Hartnett-Beasley, who married his male partner Shane last year in New York, described...

For years I have been a one of the few gay people to speak out about gay rights, probably because others were concerned about discrimination. And who can blame them? We live in a bigoted society. Lately, however, I decided that my words were landing ...

Dear Sir, Imagine that two people are standing before you; they are in love. They have travelled the world together and they are committed to spending the rest of their lives together. They are bonded in every single way, bar their lack of a marriage...