Hawaii Links for Monday, June 21
Gov. Linda Lingle will officially announce today whether House Bill 444 is on her potential veto list, as is widely expected. Civil unions and other gay civil rights issues are all over the radar:
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Time magazine Hawaii’s “highly charged” civil unions story: “Supporters on both sides of the issue, however, have not let up their fight since its dramatic passage.”
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The writes, “Same-gender couples in Hawaii anxiously wait while Lingle decides whether or not to acknowledge their equal rights.”
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Here’s comment from : “Lingle has been getting a lot of pressure from the evangelicals and the Catholic Diocese in Hawaii over this particular bill… Their rationales have nothing to do with anything of that nature and are more about maintaining their own power base and their own religious hatreds.”
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A (“Free of an agenda. Except that gay one.”): “Gov. Linda Lingle Teases Hawaii’s Gays Over Civil Unions.”
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And two civil unions-related items: Obama on openly gay individuals serving in the military is colliding with push to end , and the judge in Perry v. Schwarzenegger case on California gay marriage is gay and .
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