Republican in Guam Offers Gay Marriage Advocates New Label: Designated Benificiary

The gay marriage debate has scattered across the Pacific and reached the shores of Guam, a U.S. territory, NBC affiliate KUAM News reported. The Guam Youth Congress, an advisory body to the Guam Legislature, first introduced a civil unions bill that would grant gay and lesbian couples all the rights and obligations of heterosexual married spouses in June, bill 138. Vice-Speaker Benjamin “BF” Cruz followed up with a gay-inclusive domestic partnership bill. The bill would grant “partners to a domestic partnership … all the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities under law, whether derived from statutes, administrative rules, court decisions, the common law, or any other source of civil law, as granted to spouses (The Contract of Marriage).” Full Story from On Top Magazine

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