It comes just days after more than 1,000 people took part in an online poll on the JEP’s website, www.jer seyeveningpost.com, with 81 per cent supporting the introduction of gay marriages.

The poll is cited in Deputy Mézec’s proposition as an indicator of the growing public calls for equal marriage rights.

The proposition, which will be debated on 1 July, calls for Chief Minister Ian Gorst to begin drafting the necessary legislation for such ceremonies to be legal in the Island.

Full report in Thursday’s JEP