News Release from House Republican Caucus

Capitol Auditorium. RELATING TO EQUAL RIGHTS.

Description: Recognizes marriages between individuals of the same sex. Extends to same-sex couples the same rights, benefits, protections, and responsibilities of marriage that opposite-sex couples receive. Effective 11/18/13.

Representatives Question Former Senator Sakamoto on Same Sex Marriage Issue

Former Senator Norman Sakamoto served as a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate from 1996 to 2010. He testified for the committee on JUD/FIN

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Former Senator Norman Sakamoto testifies on JUD/FIN Committee 

Former Senator Norman Sakamoto served as a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate from 1996 to 2010. He testified for the committee on JUD/FIN Capitol Auditorium.

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Invocation – Representative Cynthia Thielen

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Committee on Judiciary Phil Lees – House of Representatives, Hawaii

Phil Lees Ontario, Canada Teacher and Marriage Advocate

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Committee on Judiciary – Jim Hochberg, Hawaii Special Session 

Hawaii attorney Jim Hochberg has focused on the dominant issues of Alliance Defending Freedom answers questions from Representative Bob McDermott during the committee hearing.

“All it protects is a minister’s desire not to say the following words, which constitute the solemnization of a marriage, ‘by the power invested in me by the state of Hawai’i, I now pronounce you man and wife’. That’s it. That is the complete scope of the religious exemption. Every other part of a wedding ceremony, every other part of a wedding service, celebration, anniversary, baptism of children — all of that stuff is not exempt,” responded Jim Hochberg, president of Hawai’i Family Advocates.

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Invocation by Representative Lauren Kealohilani Matsumoto

October 30, 2013