U.K.:SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN ‘DISAPPOINTING’

The U.K. government expressed disappointment Thursday that Bermuda has abolished samesex marriage, but said it would have been wrong to overturn the decision by the British island territory.

Bermuda’s Senate and House of Assembly passed legislation replacing samesex marriage with domestic partnerships in December, and the island’s U.K.-appointed governor, John Rankin, signed it into law Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman, James Slack, said Britain was “disappointed” by the decision, which reverses a 2017 court ruling legalizing gay marriage. But he said it would not have been right for Britain to block the move.