Anti-gay marriage grows in Antilles

The former Dutch colonies of Saba and Sint Eustatius have joined the island of Bonaire in saying that they will not carry out gay weddings once the islands become officially classed as Dutch local authorities from December 2008.


‘Saba has always been tolerant of homosexuality… but marriages are something else,’ MP Roy Hooker told local paper The Daily Herald.

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