Hawaii’s House of Representatives voted to stop a homosexual civil unions bill that would
give homosexual couples all the rights of marriage, barely a week after the state Senate approved similar legislation.
Friday’s voice vote renders the civil unions bill a dead letter unless two-thirds of the Democratic-controlled
House vote to bring the legislation back on their agenda for the rest of the year – a move considered highly unlikely
due to election year worries and pressure from pro-family conservatives.
The Honolulu Advertiser
reports that although a majority of representatives were prepared to pass the bill, legislators were unwilling to risk any
political consequences in the event of a veto from Republican governor Linda Lingle.
The legislation
had passed by a veto-proof majority in the Senate, but supporters in the House could only muster a simple majority with state
reps feeling the political pressure of pro-family conservatives and an upcoming election. Rather than risk a veto on a controversial
issue, legislators nixed the bill without debate or a roll call, thus keeping the vote off the record.
House Democratic leaders said they were chiefly worried that November might lead to key losses if they lost pro-family
voters. Members were feeling the political heat from that bloc: pro-family conservatives had held three separate rallies
at the state Capitol to show their opposition to homosexual "marriage," many of them wearing "iVote"
pins.
Hawaii's vote represents the latest political blow for homosexual "marriage",
which has been unable to overcome pro-family voters.
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The people have always voted for God's marriage
of a man and a woman - 31 times now (California twice). Only government, disobeying God and the will of the people, has pushed
homosexual "marriage". The people of Hawaii standing up for God and families caused fear with
those ungodly in government.
Pastors are to teach that Christians can not support ungodly
government. God says, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD?
Therefore the wrath of the LORD is upon you" (2 Chronicles 19:2) and "Therefore
put away from among yourselves that wicked person." (1 Cor 5:13) There is more on this subject, for example
2 Chronicles 20:35-37, Psalm 1, Exodus 23:2, Ephesians 5:5-7...
A Few Bible Verses About Homosexual Sin
"and [God] turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into
ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly" 2 Peter 2:6
"as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over
to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. "
Jude 7
"You shall not lie
with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination... 'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these
the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you... For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment
of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants...lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as
it vomited out the nations that were before you. " (Lev 18:22 - 28)
"Then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between
one who serves God and one who does not serve Him." Malach 3:18
