Hawaii - of all places - has killed a "civil union" bill that would have granted the legal benefits of marriage to homosexual couples.
Hawaii is not exactly a bastion of bitter conservatives, clinging to their guns and religion.
Here's some background on Hawaii's treatment of the issue:
The Aloha State has been a battleground in the gay rights movement since the early 1990s. A 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling nearly made it the first state to legalize same-sex marriage before voters overwhelmingly approved the nation's first "defense of marriage" constitutional amendment in 1998.Interesting.
The amendment gave the Legislature the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples. It resulted in a law banning gay marriage in Hawaii but left the door open for civil unions.
Civil unions are a "camel's nose into the tent" strategy for homosexual activists. It seems pretty clear that recognition of civil unions are quickly transformed by the courts into full-fledged "marriage." Might it be the case that Hawaiian citizens and their legislators recognized that civil union was being used as the chip in a game of "three-card monte" for recognition of "gay marriage"?
If so, that speaks to the lunacy of the current Prop 8 trial, which clearly strips the same-sex marriage side of the pretense of being willing to compromise.
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I have a sneaking suspicion we're going going to see a lot more Hawaii-like action--
Most people want to have the right to ignore homosexuality as a "private choice," not be required to affirm it as being normal, natural or good lifestyle.
Given the fact that the homosexual activist community seems to require the latter, there is going to be less give on the former.
That's not what I said?
A 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court ruling nearly made it the first state to legalize same-sex marriage....
It seems to me that, historically, when it was said that a state "legalized" something, it meant that the legislature passed a bill that the governor signed into law. More recently, it seems that a state "legalizes" something when its highest court makes a ruling, even if by the barest majority.
But only with respect to one issue.
I wonder why that is.
How interesting.
The majority of us must tote the weight of our sins and spend our lives falling down and getting back up to continue the fight. The lesbians and the homosexuals, however feel that their sins should be validated and legalized.
To use the term 'selfish' here is but a very gross understatement.
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