First Amendment

interview with Chuck Boller, Director Emeritus of the Hawaii International Film Festival....

...the bill, as written, will have a chilling effect on citizen participation in government....

...Executive Office on Early Learning Director GG Weisenfeld was joined by state legislators, preschoolers, community groups and business representatives....

...based on the County’s efforts to restrict what Neldon Mamuad may say on his prominent “MAUIWatch” Facebook feed....

More than 120 Makua (parents), kapuna (grandparents) and aunties and uncles on the rural island of Molokai joined together at the Kalanianaole Hall to hear the truth about Pono Choices....

...individuals have declined to bake cakes or take photos for same-sex wedding ceremonies—and government has punished them....

...like Pono Choices, there is a disproportionate focus on normalizing homosexuality....

"...I flew to Hawaii recently to shoot a film, fresh on the heels of being labeled a homophobic bigot by Andrew Sullivan, Anderson Cooper, and others in the Gay Department of Justice...."

Many consumers already resent Comcast for its poor customer service, as cataloged by the American Customer Satisfaction Index....

...18 voted to bring the bill to a floor vote and 28 voted to recommit the bill to the committee where it is dead for this session....

Same sex marriage opens a Pandora Box of activist pressure on our schools....

Rep. Bob McDermott, Richard Fale, Gene Ward, Jo Jordan and Marcus Oshiro address HB 1624....

Shapiro has closely examined the relationship between law and freedom....

The Hawaii Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("Little RFRA") of 2014 would restrict government actions against people of faith by applying the "compelling interest" test....

...McDermott, who enrolled his eight children in Hawaii’s public schools, doesn’t want his 11-year-old son exposed to a controversial taxpayer-funded sex education program....

Board of Education (BOE) Hearing Tuesday, Feb 4th, 2014, 1:30 PM....

...the Hawaii Attorney General argued that even if voters were tricked in 1998, they had no say in their family structure and that the legislature and governor were within their rights to force a new one on the people....

NOTE: Hawaii HB1789 is a Therapy Ban modeled on the laws discussed in this article....

Senator Hee introduced a bill to “generally” reenact Hawaii’s Shield Law.  So has Senator Ihara and a host of others....

...even Americans who oppose abortion may be forced to support it—through Obamacare....

HSLDA advocates in state legislatures, at the invitation of state homeschool organizations....

...any church or religious organization holding services at a state or county facility (such as a public school cafeteria or auditorium) could not deny services such as a same-sex marriage....

Planned Parenthood’s noxious sex education rockets across the country at unprecedented rates—propelled by millions of dollars in Obamacare PREP grants....

...come to the capitol between noon and 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 15 to meet with your representatives and senators....

The two atheists can amend their complaint within 45 days of the dismissal order....

See what happens when people of faith actively participate in the electoral process....

The Little Sisters take care of more than 13,000 poor men and women around the world who are elderly....

Alliance Defending Freedom and its allied attorneys are currently winning their cases by a wide margin, with court orders going 15-1 against the mandate....

The main philosophy of Advocates for Youth is that children have “sexual rights”....

...Blake Oshiro, out in front of the news cameras to deny that any “parade of horribles” relating to the activist LGBT agenda would ever be unleashed on the people of Hawaii....

...McDermott said he should be able to get a copy of the 10-hour curriculum from either the state Department of Education or the University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies, which developed the $800,000 pilot program....

...atheists have falsely accused five Hawaii churches of defrauding the government in a lawsuit filed in state court....

...In the fastest "investigation" in Hawaii history, 2 weeks, the DOE announced the program will restart. The program will also be expanded to 30 more schools....

...American Samoa Congressional Delegate Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr has been found...

For each letter to Santa that is deposited in the Santa Mail letterbox located at Macy’s stores, Macy’s will donate $1 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation....

Opening night shimmers with “Santa’s Underwater Adventure” for the 29th annual event....

From 1621, when the Pilgrims arrived in the New World, to 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared it a federal holiday, thanking God and practicing religion were of paramount importance....

It was particularly refreshing to see how fearless the Hawaii people were when testifying before the Legislature. They ignored "political correctness" and simply told the truth from their hearts. In other words, they weren't afraid....

She cited certain loss of money for James Campbell High School, Ewa-Makai Middle School, the "new High School in Ewa Beach", the widening of Ft. Weaver Rd., and others...

...concerns raised about inadequate religious exemptions and unanswered questions now left up to the courts to decide will undoubtedly require continual fixes to the law in the future....

'Tis  the season to give thanks to the Lord for those 23 good legislators who voted "no" on SB1 and "yes" for marriage....

thoughts on the decision and what we need to do moving forward....