Domestic Partnership Bill Becomes Civil Partnership Bill
Guam - Vice-Speaker B.J. Cruz's Domestic Partnership Bill has now become the Civil Partnership Bill.
A revised version of the bill was submitted to the Legislature Friday changing some language in hopes of making the controversial measure more acceptable to lawmakers and the Catholic Church which has strongly opposed what it views as homosexual marriage under the guise of another name.
Supporters have called it a civil rights measure aimed at providing the same rights in law to homosexual couples that heterosexual couples who are married now enjoy.
The revised bill puts the emphasis on the civil nature of the partnership and states that a civil partnership proposed is not a marriage. It even goes as far as acknowledgeing that a marriage is a union between a man and a woman.
The bill is still in committee and is not expected to be voted on during the current legislative session.
