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Mark J. Pettingill

234
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8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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They met! You admitted it. They did. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Point of order.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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No, I am not, Wayne. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Because w e did not have any collusion in this regard. We have cooperation and we have done this many times on both sides of the House.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am still—
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am still standing my objection. I do not accept that point. I say it is collusion. I know full well that they met in order to amend the position of the Honourable Member’s Bill, because they knew that it was not right the way that it was. It is not right now, and I will deal with that in …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Well maybe . . . and not yet. Exactly. And the Clerk is there to advise you. This is making a mockery of the debate in this House! An absolute mockery! This Government —
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—is making a mockery of it as well.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Oh, happy day. Thank you so much, Madam Chairman. Let me start on this pos ition. A little bit of p oetry, maybe, Madam Chairman, and I ask Members to hear this —and maybe some people will recognise where it is from. Some may think it is Wordsworth. Some may think that it is Shakespeare. Some may think it is …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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It is not from the Bermuda Constituti on Act. It is from the Bermuda Human Rights Act 1981. It is the opening phrase of the Bermuda Rights Act.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I will not shush! It is the opening phrase of the Human Rights Act of Bermuda 1981. Where do we go f rom there? Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Point of order, Madam Chairman.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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On the Human Rights Act? Okay. POINT OF ORDER Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: Madam Chairman, you asked me to stick specifically to the clause in the Committee stage. And you are giving the Honourable Member a lot of —
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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You cannot get any closer than the opening paragraph of the Human Rights Act, which is the preamble to paragraph 2 of the Human Rights Act. It umbrellas and embraces from the heart what the Human Rights Act was designed to do. It clearly sets the position that this is in the i nterest of the human fami ly. What …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—and tell me if gay people are not members of the human family! If you say they are members of the human family, are they not entitled to every single right of every member of the human family? Do not shame us here today. Your children will remember how you voted on th is, how you ducked with some colourful …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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How your people fought for human rights and you cannot then . . . if you believe those things, h ow can you possibly support an amendment to section 2 of the Human Rights Act if you read that preamble and you believe what is said there and it resonates in your heart and you believe in your history about …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—on this position —
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—if you are going to amend clause 2 and obviate a key essential service to a class of people— gay people. You cannot do that and embrace that. It is not right. History will judge you. The world will judge you. You will be judged if you cannot embrace this fundamental issue of human rights. 2438 8 July 2016 Official …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of clarification. My Honourable Learned friend is quite right, as he often is, on these points. We spoke, quite pellucidly, to the Honourable Member Wayne Furbert’s Bill, which is what he, Madam Chairman, quite rightly said. Now if there is an amendment to be tabled, my Honourable Learned friend is quite right, you now speak to the issue of …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman, I will be a little more refi ned, perhaps, than I was pr eviously on the issue because now I am speaking to the amendment. 2448 8 July 2016 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assemb ly I think Honourable Members on the other side need to be clear about this because this is your Bill …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order, point of order.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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It is not for the Honourable Member, with respect, to discuss or point out a pos ition of erring by the Chief Justice. That is why we have that . . . but here is my point of order. What he is failing to recognise . . . he is mi sleading. He is misleading the people of this country …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—the Government had this i ntent in 2013.