CHRISTIAN VOICE HAWAII BLOG
CHRISTIAN VOICE HAWAII BLOG
This year marked the 10th anniversary of the historic Hawaii vote to approve an amendment to the Hawaii State Constitution to effectively stop “same-sex marriage” from being legal in Hawaii. Seventy percent of Hawaii voters voted in favor of the amendment, making Hawaii the first state to effectively use the law to stop “same-sex marriage.”
This year, ten years after Hawaii’s decisive vote, Arizona, California and Florida voters likewise approved constitutional amendments to ban “same-sex marriage” from being legal in their states.
Many of you remember that the amendment battle in Hawaii was long and hard. What you may not know is that the battle started 11 years earlier, in 1987 with the first introduction of “homosexual rights” legislation. It was only God’s providence and a few courageous legislators that held off these perverse attacks on family values.
Then in 1991 two homosexual couples applied for marriage licenses. After being denied by the State Health Department, the couples sued. The state courts ruled that the State of Hawaii could not deny marriage licenses to “same-sex” couples. Despite years of costly appeals by self-sacrificing champions for traditional family; despite the traditional moral values of the community, the Hawaii state courts and the US federal courts persisted (indeed, insisted) to legalize “same-sex marriage” in Hawaii.
However, the battle raging in the legislature helped to delay the courts’ ruling from going into effect. After four years of intense wrangling, the legislators, for various reasons, agreed to put the matter on the ballot for the voters to decide. Thus, two years later, in 1998 the public had its opportunity to weigh in on the matter by approving the constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment trumped the courts’ decision; “same-sex marriage” would once again be illegal in Hawaii.
The battle over the amendment was extremely nasty with the “gay” activists and their radical liberal supporters likening the traditional marriage amendment to hatred and KKK type of racial discrimination. They poured millions of dollars into their scare campaign and ran ads of the violence during the 60s civil right movement and WWII internment camps.
Ten years later, we can look back and see that their dire predictions of a “homophobic,” hate-filled, concentration-camp Hawaii was totally false.
10th Anniversary of Hawaii’s Traditional Marriage Vote
12/12/08