[Image from here.]Evidently the state of Hawaii is just too damn liberal for certain so-called "evangelical" christiansts who have set up shop there.
The issue of the moment is gay and lesbian civil unions. Because these christianists were able to shoot down same-sex marriage 10 years ago, they are flexing their muscles once again.
Sometime in the coming year Hawaii's legislature intends to give serious thought to the notion that homosexual couples should be able to form civil unions. The wingnuts on the right are up in arms, and the fundy Protestants have jumped in bed with the kooky Catholics to defeat this offense against their poor, impotent little god who obviously can't fend for herself.
But, there's more. The issue of civil union is seen as a jumping-off point for these religionists to push Hawaii back to the Stone Age. It is to be part of a larger political effort to put "conservatives" in Hawaii's driver's seat.
According to Cox.com, Garret Hashimoto, chief honcho of the Hawaii Christian Coalition, said, "Conservatives (almost) never win here. [But] we won big in 1998, and this issue is coming up again in 2010. So, hopefully, 1998 will again surface in 2010."
That may not happen. Some observers believe that voters in Hawaii are more favorable toward civil unions now than they were ten years ago. I haven't seen any data to support that belief, however.
These damn christianists are so disingenuous, so sneaky, so nasty, so un-Christian! The matter of civil unions is a wedge issue to help foment a bigger and ongoing campaign to get their favored candidates elected to positions of political powers. It is illegal, however, for churches to endorse specific candidates, so they intend to talk about "moral principles."
"Moral principles" in this case means no same sex marriage, civil unions, etc.
And everyone in Hawaii knows immediately the gubernatorial candidate the religious wingnuts favor is Hawaii's current Lt. Governor, Repugnican James "Duke" Aiona.
"Aiona has made no secret of his strong religious convictions nor his conservative views on social issues, including opposition to civil unions, gay marriage and abortion. He has attended religious rallies and in 2004 told a prayer gathering that 'Hawaii belongs to Jesus.'"
I wonder if Jesus knows that? Oh, wait, he died 2000 years ago.
The christianist wingnuts, being sneaky and snarky and snaky, as we said, plan to inundate their sheeple with literature and information about all the various candidates running for political office. But, no one is fooled. It's an overt if underhanded attempt to influence the political process using the power the pompous priests and pious pastors hold over their ignorant faithful.
Let's hope it doesn't work. Hawaii, like the rest of the nation, needs men and women in political office who believe in the Constitution, not the Bible; who will commit themselves to the people, not to Jesus; who will be representatives of all the diverse people in our land, not just the nutty few!
Why may it not work? Because this blatant attempt to impose fundy christianity on the people of Hawaii is beginning to raise opposition among the sane and the sensitive. Rabbi Peter Schaktman of Temple Emanu-El, who supports same-sex marriage, said all this supercilious piousness on the part of the christianist wingnuts may rouse those who support civil unions to get involved in the political process.
"It may prove," saith the Rabbi, "to be ultimately their undoing."
We can only hope.
The importance of this story, however, reaches far beyond Hawaii. At this moment, all over our fair land, in states and cities large and small, christianist wingnuts are on their knees praying to their god, which doesn't mean a hill of beans, but are also working hard to impose their christianist religion on the rest of us - and that does mean something!
These people are very dangerous to the continuing health of our nation!
Be aware, be awake, be ready to fight back!
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