Additionally, attitudes are largely positive; a public consultation found that 90% of respondents were in favour of same-sex marriage.

[3] On 13 May 2015, the Attorney General recommended that the Executive Council consider the legalisation of same-sex marriage or civil partnership.

[10] The official reasons attached to the amendments to the ordinance included a note stating that "...parents to a child may be two mothers or two fathers".

Article 16 of the 2008 Constitution bans discrimination based on sexual orientation:[23] The Crimes Ordinance 2014 provides for fines or imprisonment of up to 7 years for a person who "uses threatening words or behaviour, or displays any written material which is threatening, and intends by doing so to stir up religious hatred, or hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation".

[24] The Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 allows courts to treat an offence committed on the basis of the victim's sexual orientation as an aggravative factor.