Bill to allow civil unions may be stalled in House (Hawai'i)

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/20/ln/ln09a.html

A bill that would give gay couples the opportunity to receive the same rights and privileges as married couples through civil unions appears to be dead at the Legislature this year, despite more than three hours of impassioned testimony last night from both sides of the debate.

House Judiciary Chairman Eric Hamakawa, D-3rd (Hilo, Kea'au, Mountain View), deferred a vote on the issue indefinitely and said afterward that it will be up to next year's Legislature to decide whether to take the matter up again..

Theoretically, Hamakawa or Judiciary Vice Chairman Blake Oshiro, D-33rd (Halawa, 'Aiea, Pearlridge), could ask House Speaker Calvin Say to waive the 48-hour rule for meeting notices so that a committee meeting could be held before today's 6 p.m. House floor session. But Hamakawa's decision to defer indefinitely, as well as his comments following the meeting, make that unlikely.



Screw Hamakawa!!

[cosmicdot]

1. Cheney must have tasked Delay to orchestrate activities

It's one state then another. What a {ahem} coincidence!

http://hawaiigaymarriage.com/



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