UK parliamentarian introduces same-sex marriage bill for British Overseas Territories

Lord Michael Cashman has introduced a Private Members' Bill in the UK's House of Lords to make same-sex marriage legal in the Cayman Islands and other British Overseas Territories.

The bill extends to six overseas territories where same-sex marriage is currently unlawful – Cayman, Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

If the bill passes, it would make marriage between same-sex couples legal and would empower local governors to make changes to the law to allow homosexual couples to wed.

Lord Cashman's bill also protects individuals and religious organisations that do not wish to conduct or participate in a religious marriage on the ground that it is a marriage of a same-sex couple.