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Finance, I Am Writing in Strong Support of SB 1. the Freedom to Marry the Person You Love Is a Basic Freedom That Should Not Be Denied to Anyone To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon Har, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Wendy Valliant Hailku, HI 96708 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, I am writing in strong support of SB 1. The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. Gay and lesbian couples get married for similar reasons as everyone else - to make a lifetime promise of love, commitment and fidelity to the person they love. In Hawaii, we don't turn our backs on family. No member of anyone's ohana - gay or straight - should have to face shame because of who they are and who they love. The government should not be in the business of telling people who they can and cannot marry. None of us would want to be told that it is illegal to marry the person we love. Please pass this bill to allow for marriage equality for all of Hawaii's families. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon Har, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Makeda Parran Honolulu, HI 96813 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, I am writing in strong support of SB 1. The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. Gay and lesbian couples get married for similar reasons as everyone else — to make a lifetime promise of love, commitment and fidelity to the person they love. In Hawaii, we don't turn our backs on family. No member of anyone's ohana — gay or straight — should have to face shame because of who they are and who they love. The government should not be in the business of telling people who they can and cannot marry. None of us would want to be told that it is illegal to marry the person we love. Please pass this bill to allow for marriage equality for all of Hawaii's families. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon Har, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Allison Waltz-Hill Honolulu, HI 96848 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, I am writing in strong support of SB 1. The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. Gay and lesbian couples get married for similar reasons as everyone else - to make a lifetime promise of love, commitment and fidelity to the person they love. In Hawaii, we don't turn our backs on family. No member of anyone's ohana - gay or straight - should have to face shame because of who they are and who they love. The government should not be in the business of telling people who they can and cannot marry. None of us would want to be told that it is illegal to marry the person we love. Please pass this bill to allow for marriage equality for all of Hawaii's families. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon Har, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Gerald Lai Mililani, HI 96789 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, Legislators, Some of the Christian churches are espousing anti —gay, anti-civil rights, anti-human rights propaganda. They proclaim that homosexuality is a sin, therefore gay people should be discriminated against, and not granted their equal civil rights. Even the Pope said he himself and everyone are sinners. By the same logic, then everyone should be denied equal rights. The Christian church has an abysmal historic record when it comes to Civil, Human, and Religious rights. For centuries the church has persecuted people of other faiths. The Jews, the Muslims, Hindus and other non- believers. Witness the banishment of Jews and Muslims from Spain in the 15th century. Witness the persecution of scientists like Galileo & Copernicus, and the Spanish Inquisition with its torture and burning at the stake of all non-believers and heretics. For centuries, slavery existed throughout the world, and the Christian church condoned it. Even St. Paul defended slavery. The Christian church likens itself to the defenders of morality. What was so moral about the Thirty Years War, when Catholics and Protestants were murdering each other in the hundreds of thousands, and destroying much of Europe, in the name of their God and religion. Where were these Christian defenders of morality when Jews, homosexuals, Slays, Gypsies were rounded up in Nazi Germany, sent to concentration camps, gassed, and burnt in the crematoriums. Did the Christians, the Catholics, defend the rights of the Jews and others in Mussolini's fascist Italy and Franco's fascist Spain. No, they were complicit in aiding the extermination of millions people during the Holocaust, before and during World War II. The patriarchal Christian church has kept women in subordinate roles within the Church and society. To this day, there are still people in the Christian church, who continue to promote intolerance and discrimination. Instead of being the leaders and advocates for civil and human rights, they are the most vitriolic opponents of civil & human rights. How they can brazenly call themselves Christian, when they have so much intolerance and blood on their hands. I am writing in strong support of SB 1. Please pass this bill to end discrimination against Gay people and to allow marriage for all Gay people and their families. To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon Har, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Teyah Bair Honolulu, HI 96822 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, I am writing in strong support of SB 1. The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. Gay and lesbian couples get married for similar reasons as everyone else - to make a lifetime promise of love, commitment and fidelity to the person they love. In Hawaii, we don't turn our backs on family. No member of anyone's ohana - gay or straight - should have to face shame because of who they are and who they love. The government should not be in the business of telling people who they can and cannot marry. None of us would want to be told that it is illegal to marry the person we love. I have been with the same woman for two years and I feel really disrespected that I am told I cannot have the same opportunity to get married that the rest of my family and friends have. Please pass this bill to allow for marriage equality for all of Hawaii's families. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon Har, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Steven Canales Pearl City, HI 96782 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, I am writing in strong support of SB 1. The freedom to marry the person you love is a basic freedom that should not be denied to anyone. Gay and lesbian couples get married for similar reasons as everyone else - to make a lifetime promise of love, commitment and fidelity to the person they love. In Hawaii, we don't turn our backs on family. No member of anyone's ohana - gay or straight - should have to face shame because of who they are and who they love. The government should not be in the business of telling people who they can and cannot marry. None of us would want to be told that it is illegal to marry the person we love. Please pass this bill to allow for marriage equality for all of Hawaii's families. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. To: Representative Karl Rhoads, Judiciary Committee Chair Representative Sylvia Luke, Finance Committee Chair Representative Sharon liar, Judiciary Committee Vice-Chair Representative Scott Nishimoto, Finance Committee Vice-Chair Representative Aaron Ling Johanson, Finance Committee Vice-Chair From: Mindy McDermott Honoluu, HI 96822 [email protected] RE: SB 1 Thursday, October 31, Capitol Auditorium Position: Strong Support Dear Chair Rhoads, Chair Luke, and members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Finance, I am writing in strong support of SB 1.
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