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HI: Civil Unions Supporter Wins Governorship

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Neil AbercrombieGay-friendly former Rep. Neil Abercrombie has won Hawaii’s gubernatorial race over GOP candidate Lt. Gov. James “Duke” Aiona, who infamously rallied with the red-shirted Christianists during the battle for civil unions.

That fight was won in the state legislature, but outgoing (closet case) Gov. Linda Lingle sided with hate and vetoed the bill. While in Congress, Abercrombie earned a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign, meaning we now have a real advocate in governor’s seat in Hawaii.

Now we’ll have to see if Hawaii’s legislature is willing to go through that incredibly ugly battle one more time.

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HI: New Poll Shows 48% Support Civil Unions Bill, 44% Opposed

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Hawaii Civil Unions BillVoters are torn over civil unions. A new Hawaii Poll found that 48 percent generally support a civil unions bill passed by the state Legislature and vetoed by Gov. Linda Lingle this year, while 44 percent oppose the bill and 9 percent are undecided. The margin of error was 4 percentage points.

Gay activists and religious conservatives tried to make civil unions an issue in the September primary and November general election, but with voters so divided, it is unlikely the issue alone will swing many campaigns.

“It sounds like it’s split right down the middle. That probably does pretty much reflect where most folks are,” said Dan Boylan, a political analyst and former University of Hawaii-West Oahu history professor. “It’s a really complex issue.”

Full Story from the Star Advertiser

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HI: Couples File Suit Against State for Civil Unions

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Having been together since 2005, Sean Smith and Kale Taylor are like many committed couples – they want to make things official. “It’s what people do,” said Smith, 32. “It’s what all our friends do.”

“The closer we got to civil unions, it’s become a little more important to us to have (a commitment) ceremony and have all our family involved,” Smith said. “We really thought we were close to being able to have a civil union.”

Gov. Linda Lingle’s veto of House Bill 444 ended the possibility. Now Smith and Taylor, 29, are among six couples suing the state, alleging it has failed to provide equal rights to gays and lesbians short of marriage. The lawsuit, being filed today in Circuit Court, asks the court to step in where the Legislature did not and reverse the effect of Lingle’s veto.

Full Story from the Star Advertiser

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HI: Honolulu Mayor & Candidate for Governor Would Veto Civil Unions

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said yesterday that he too would have vetoed the civil unions bill rejected by Gov. Linda Lingle, describing it as “tantamount to marriage.”

Hannemann said that if he were to be elected governor in November, he would work with state lawmakers on expanding the state’s reciprocal beneficiaries law so gay couples could have additional benefits. But he said he would use his veto power if lawmakers sent him an identical civil unions bill.

“If that bill continues to be tantamount to marriage – between a man and a man or a woman and a woman – I could not sign it,” he said at a meeting with Star-Advertiser editors and reporters. “I would not sign it.” Pressed on exactly what he would have done had the bill reached his desk as governor, he said, “I guess I probably would have vetoed it.”

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HI: Governor Lingle Compares Gay Marriage to Incest

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

In announcing her decision to veto a civil unions bill approved by lawmakers, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle insisted she had treated supporters of a civil unions bill with “respect and dignity.” But in her first interview since that announcement, Lingle likened gay marriage to an incestuous relationship.

Saying the legislation had “touched the hearts and minds of our citizens as no other social issue of our day,” Lingle sounded concerned about how the bill would affect all the people of Hawaii.

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“For those people who want to make this into a civil rights issue, and of course those in favor of the bill, they see it as a civil rights issue,” she said. “And I understand them drawing that conclusion. But people on the other side would point out, well, we don’t allow other people to marry even – it’s not a civil right for them. First cousins couldn’t marry, or a brother and a sister and that sort of thing.”

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HI: Opinions on Governor Lingle’s Veto of Civil Unions Bill

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

In April, the Hawaii House passed a bill granting civil union privileges to same-sex couples. On Tuesday, outgoing Hawaii Governor Laura Lingle, a Republican, vetoed the measure, arguing that the legislation created “marriage by another name” and should be placed before voters. Hawaii has seen fierce debates over gay marriage in the past, with the state supreme court overturning a ban in 1993, and voters amending the constitution in 1998 to permit a gay marriage ban once again. The Hawaii ACLU and Lambda Legal have announced plans to sue the state. Meanwhile, outrage over the measure has swept the left-leaning blogosphere. Here’s why:

Lingle Disingenuous? Matthew Rettenmund of gay-rights blog Towelroad fumes, “While she states her veto has nothing to do with her personal position against ‘same-gender marriage’ (her term) or political considerations, she also takes the opportunity to slam the Democratic’led legislature for forcing her hand. A farce.”

Will Be Remembered for Thwarting Key Bill Michael A. Jones of the Gay Rights blog at Change.org doesn’t hold back. “Let this be the legacy of Gov. Linda Lingle. Given the opportunity to fix a discriminatory law that clearly treats gays and lesbians differently and denies them many benefits, Gov. Lingle chose to stand on the side of inequality and intolerance. And she should be remembered as the Governor that could have moved Hawaii an inch closer toward equal rights, but instead deflected on a major civil rights issue.”

Full Story from the Atlantic Wire

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HI: Civil Union Proponents to Take Fight to Courts

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

The ACLU and other pro-civil unions groups expect to file suit in state court within the next month or so, after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed civil union legislation Tuesday. They’ll ask a judge to rule that Hawaii’s state constitution provides equal rights – including civil unions – to gay and lesbian couples.

Within a month or so, the ACLU and the gay-rights group Lambda Legal plan to file suit in circuit court, hoping to force the state to allow civil unions.

“We are standing ready to file that lawsuit in short order to ensure that LGBT families in Hawaii are provided equal rights and benefits. To be sure, the Hawaii Constitution already provides that and we’re going to make sure that the courts agree with us,” said Lois Perrin, legal director of ALCU Hawaii.

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HI: Lingle Weighs Civil Unions Bill Decision

Monday, July 5th, 2010

We are on the eve of one of Governor Linda Lingle’s most highly-anticipated decisions. Governor Lingle must determine by Tuesday, July 6th the outcome of House Bill 444.

Her options are to sign it, veto, or allow it to become law without her signature.

“I really thought about this more than I thought about any other piece of legislation and any other issue that’s faced society,” said Gov. Lingle.

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HI: New Poll Shows 64% Support Civil Unions Bill, 81% Support Gay Rights Generally

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Today, a coalition of leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations in Hawaii announced poll results indicating a wide majority of the people of Hawaii support equal rights for same-sex couples. The poll was commissioned by Equality Hawaii and conducted by QMark Research. Coalition representatives also delivered more than 8000 postcards, petitions and letters addressed to Governor Lingle to corroborate the findings of the poll.

“Today we deliver news to the Governor that the people of Hawaii overwhelmingly support treating same-sex couples equally under the law. This poll and the subsequent constituent contacts delivered to the Governor today, confirm what we’ve known for a long time – that Hawaii is a place for tolerance and equality. The time is now to stand against discrimination and to stand for treating all families in Hawaii equally. We are one Hawaii and we urge Governor Lingle to stand with the people of Hawaii in recognizing that enacting civil unions is the right thing to do.”

The QMark poll shows 81% agreed that “committed couples and their families, regardless of their sexual preference or orientation, should have the same rights.” The number was an increase from a 73% result obtained on the same question in a 2007 poll. Additionally, 64% agreed that “couples of the same gender should have access to the legal privileges and protections of marriage as couples of the opposite gender – as a matter of civil rights.”

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HI: Governor Lingle Receives 7,500 Letters, Postcards in Favor of Civil Unions Bill

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has received an estimated 7500 cards and letters urging to her to support her state’s pending civil unions bill. Lingle has until Sunday to decide on whether to veto the bill or allow it to become law without her signature.

Two weeks ago she listed the bill among her potential vetoes in order that the legislature prepare for a possible override.

“We have letters and signatures from a broad demographic – the straight community, the gay community, across the state, across the country,” said Michael Golojuch Jr., of the GLBT Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)-Oahu. “Our online petition has signatures from Venezuela, South Korea, Australia. It’s clear that the world is watching how Hawaii decides this issue.”

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