Legislators who can’t walk and chew gum at the same time shouldn’t in such a stressful and multitasking job.

Can’t take the “heat in the kitchen and the stress of “one complex and complicated entree after another” coming your way to put together, then leave, it’s not the job for you.

Look at the list of bills any state legislature in the USA takws up, a real “smorgasbord” of all kinds of things to consider.

Job of a legislator involves “myriads” of all kinds of issues that are assigned, not just the ones that please the “Anas” of the world”.

One thing that is abundantly clear here is that A LEGISLATURE HAS NO BUSINESS TREATING ITS CITIZENS AS SECOND-CLASS TRASH just because the “Anas of the world” think that gays (who will contribute a lot of good to their society if they are not caught up in worries of health care and insurance, hospital visitation etc for themselves and their partners and much more) ought to be shoved back into their closets or to sit down and shut up.

And this Rev. is Hawaii’s Lt Governor should be never been allowed on the ballot. This country is and should be for the good of all and not just of the religious folk be run on a strictly secular basis and you can’t be both a preacher and politician same as oil and water do not, should not and cannot mix.

Especially given the extremely diverse nature of this country and (Hawaii is a melting pot of all kinds of Asian, island and mainland USA cultures) SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS VERY IMPORTANT AND CRITICAL in order to fairly, effectively and even-handedly run a US state or the USA as a whole.

This can never by alliwed to be a complete theocracy like the Islamic Republic of Iran as I am sure the Rev. James Aiona (A.K.A. Lt. Gov. James Aiona according to Boyd)

Same as you black people REFUSED TO SIT IN THE BACK OF THE BUS we gays refuse to do the same!! How warped of you, Ana, to not want to “sit in the back of the bus”, but then on the other hand to turn around and to insist that gays do just that! Have you learn nothing from the oppression of your own people, Ana, as you insist on the oppression, the stifling of gay people. To not want them to have a voice for them in the government of where each of us gay men and women live is an outrage.

This is the 21st century and this is not going to be “business as usual” as it was done in the 1950s or before.

All of the states are hurting with this economy. But it isn’t stopping some of the legislators here and there from at least trying to do what they can to advance and to lift up their citizenry equality-wise.

Those courageous legislators who put their jobs at risk to do the right thing, are “points of light” to me whereas the Anas of the world are trying to do the exact opposite, to “block the light of equality” from shining in.

Maybe Ana, you should get a job at “False Focus on My Family”. They could use more of your “life-withering” types there.

Oh, and BTW, my fiance and I are not second-class citizens. How would you feel if someone treated you and our partner like you were less than normal?

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are as important for what they do NOT say as what they DO say.

“All [men ... we still have some work to do on THAT!] are created equal. Not all white men, not all Christian men, not all protestant men, not all wealthy men, not all conservative Republican men, but ALL MEN (understanding, though it took us 200 years to figure it OUT, that “men” meant “PEOPLE”).

The Bill of Rights was IMMEDIATELY inserted into the Constitution BEFORE THE INK WAS DRY for the SOLE purpose of protecting the minorities against the tyranny of the majority. The Founders read Greek; they knew the story of how “democracy” in Athens quickly degenerated into mob rule.

It doesn’t matter a fish fillet on Friday whether .5 percent, 3 percent, 5 percent, 10 percent, or 49.5 of American citizens are GLBTQAI. WE ARE GUARANTEED THE SAME RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION *NOW*, and always HAVE been.

But so were African-Americans … and they’re STILL on THEIR journey to secure the blessings of liberty for themselves and their children.

It also doesn’t matter if 99.5 percent of all Americans think we are immoral, animals, despicable, reprehensible, diseased, promiscuous, destined for hell, etc.

WE STILL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AS THE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT.

THAT’S not a matter of OPINION or RELIGIOUS DOGMA, but of Constitutional LAW.

The VAST majority of “cultured” white Southerners found the debates and demonstrations for African-American civil rights messy, uncouth, loud, counter-productive, vulgar, etc. etc. etc.

You know what? Their opinion DIDN’T MATTER. African-American civil rights WAS going to happen, with or without them.

The same is true of GLBTQAI rights. They will happen, with or without the support of the three monotheistic religions (who have managed to spill more blood and hold civilization back more than any other single entity).

THERE WILL *BE* NO THEOCRACY IN THESE UNITED STATES, AS LONG AS THE CONSTITUTION STANDS!

Bud Burgoon-Clark
San Diego CA USA
happily RECOVERING from kristianism
happily GAY
happily MARRIED to my HUSBAND
no thanks to the ROMAN and MORMON
PAGAN FERTILITY CULTS and the
kraven kowardly kristianist
kultist krazies (KKKKK for short)…
I’M STILL WAITING FOR 1st CLASS CITIZENSHIP!

Equal rights for all Americans are unimportant? I think you should investigate a nice, cozy mental hospital for people of your faith. Certainly they will accept you as a charity case.

This spending of our tax payer dollars for what, if not to see wealthy homosexuals go against federal laws by giving each other in marriage. Local governments like those of Hawaii are ignoring the dire economic situation their people are living in but instead feel this issue of constantly managing around federal law to make way for homosexuals to marry is more important. While I do appreciate the protection given to the wording of the definition of marriage, I find it insulting that the legislature would even cave in to homosexual pressure and bring again this sort of nonsense to the floor.