Hawaii lawmakers question benefits of gay marriage

Associated Press ^ | Oct 29, 2013 5:03 AM EDT | Oskar Garcia

[Olog-hai]

Hawaii’s battle over gay marriage brought state lawmakers back to work Monday after the governor called a special session that could make the islands a wedding destination for more couples.

Some 1,800 people signed up to testify in person at a Senate committee hearing, which was carried live on TV and local news websites. Dozens of people gathered around three televisions in the Capitol rotunda, cheering testimony they agreed with and singing songs.

Opponents of gay marriage solicited honks and shaka signs from passing motorists on the street, staging a large rally of hundreds of people timed with afternoon rush hour. …

[Steamburg]

All in the land of Aloha with near total democrat rule. Did somebody realize that gay marriage wasn’t about love or rights? It is about creating a new class of victims to compete with the other government created victims for a slice of the government pie.

[what's up]

I went to a sign-waving in HI which was demonstrating against gay marriage.

The vast majority of people driving by honked and waved in favor of the demonstration.

The people of Hawaii do not want this.

[kaehurowing]

For several years, the Hawaii Democrat Party has been largely financed through gay activist money from the Mainland, so they are financially beholden to the homosexuals to ramming this through despite public opposition. They called a special session just to do it, with shortened consideration and voting, and limited public hearings, hoping the voters (with an intervening general session next spring) will have forgotten by the time of next year’s elections in the fall.

As part of this, the Democrat Party this past summer considered expelling Democrat legislators who indicated last session they would not be in favor of same sex marriage. A strong signal that if you want to get re-elected with Democrat support, you have to toe the homosexual line.