Same-sex unions on Guam?

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Yup.  Sen. BJ Cruz has introduced Bill 138, which was authored by the Guam Youth Congress.  Click here to see the bill.  Click here to see Sen. Cruz' "substitute" bill.
 
The Territory has found that it has a compelling interest in providing benefits for married heterosexual couples in order to help them raise and educate their children to be good, productive and healthy citizens.  The Territory may indeed find that it has a compelling interest to extend (some of) those same benefits (probate, insurance, etc..) to other classes of people, but to do so based upon same-sex attraction is stupid.
 
Click here to read some good articles written by Fr. Francis Walsh about same-sex marriages and unions  And there's more to come.
 
Here are some good arguments against the bill by Tim Rohr.