{"id":15090,"date":"2011-11-16T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15090"},"modified":"2011-11-16T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T14:56:07","slug":"bahamas-anti-gay-attitude-mars-tourism-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/bahamas-anti-gay-attitude-mars-tourism-competition","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Anti-Gay Attitude Mars Tourism Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15104\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15104\" title=\"bahamas-protest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-protest-250x142.jpg\" alt=\"bahamas protest\" width=\"250\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-protest-250x142.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-protest-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bahamas-protest.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Gay Protest in Nassau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas Tourist Office has clarified the &#8220;confusing&#8221; conditions of a dream wedding competition after a judge pulled out over a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The competition gives couples a chance to win one of 16 &#8220;dream&#8221; weddings, to take place simultaneously around the islands next year.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing competition was open to &#8220;residents of the United Kingdom aged 18 and over, who are legally entitled to enter into marital\/civil partnership in the UK and in The Bahamas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate clause further into the terms and conditions, was written: &#8220;it is not Bahamas Government policy to provide marriage licenses for same sex couples and therefore same sex marriages cannot be performed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But confusion arose over why the civil partnerships eligibility clause had been included, as Bahamian law does not allow for these either.<\/p>\n<p>As gay couples are not able to enter into civil partnerships in the Bahamas, and straight couples cannot have civil partnerships in the UK, no one would be eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the judges of the Bahamas &#8220;Dream&#8221; Wedding contest voluntarily stood down from the judging panel after the anti-gay rules of the competition were exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,207,49,33,282],"class_list":["post-15090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-contests","tag-gays","tag-law","tag-tourism","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}