Comments on: Hawaii Senate passes civil unions bill

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:47:17 +0000

I’m sorry for all the people who say CUs are crumbs. I dumped about $53,000 into CA and ME, money I should have given to my wife to fix up the house, and my kids.

I simply don’t see “marriage” happening soon, in places where there is a referendum process or where the psychopaths of right wing christianity can browbeat legislatures.

WA state showed that you can get a majority for full recognition under a different name, as long as there are large progressive city populations.

And the real issue is not marriage at all. The real issue is breaking the church’es tyrannical closet. Surveys show a 25% increase in support for gay people in general, when people know gays and respect them, vs when they don’t know gays.

Sorry. I wish I had a magic wand that would send to hell the hierarchy of the catholic church, and make slaves of all the crazy hatefilled christians, who hate gays, and who are graduates of the old southern culture of slavery and segregation.

The fundamental problem re the Catholic church – it is dead in europe, dying in Latin America, and America is the last hope of the ChurchFuhrer. BTW, there are tens of millions of good Catholics who should just leave the church period, and not give it a red cent.

As for the so called chritians, they will not go to hell soon enough. Our biggest mistake was not having a Nuremburg tribunal after the civil war, to take care of the people who caused it.

While gays

By: SteveMD2

SteveMD2 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:38:43 +0000

Lots of other states have civil unions or domestic partnerships. Oregon, Washington, CA (DPs), Nevada, NJ, etc.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:23:24 +0000

Ginelle and wahoo,

Civll Unions are better than no recognition at all. Civil unions in Vermont, Connecticut and New Hampshire got converted into marriage equality for those states. Even though that didn’t happen for New Jersey civil unions this time around at end of 2009 and at beginning of 2010.

By: Ginelle

Ginelle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:16:04 +0000

It is still not a marriage and as long as we keep accepting these crumbs, then that is all we are going to get and we will never achieve the full equality we deserve! With countries throughout the world such as The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway and Sweden as well as several American States already providing full equal marriage rights, it is absolute proof that legislation can be changed despite the whining of religion and conservatives.

By: wahoo

wahoo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:25:33 +0000

Oh how luke-warm this little nugget is.

By: DJAlexander89

DJAlexander89 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:24:43 +0000

Well it’s something isn’t it? so there are 11 states that have some form of recognition. i hope those 33 states that banned it either get there bans overturned or just fail economically.