{"id":1375,"date":"2013-09-15T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:56:33","slug":"gay-marriage-weddings-oahu-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/gay-marriage-weddings-oahu-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Calls Special Session on Gay Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"same-sex-hawaii-weddings-21<\/a>My first same-sex couple in 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MAY SOON BECOME LEGAL IN HAWAII<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Hawaii Governor, Neil Abercrombie, has called a special legislative session in the State of Hawaii to legalize same-sex marriage. \u00a0Here in Hawaii, same-sex couples (and heterosexual couples), can already legally unite through civil-unions. \u00a0Yes, you read that correct, a heterosexual couple can opt to unite under civil marriage laws, rather than normal marriage laws as well. \u00a0Uniting under a civil union rather than marriage is advantageous to a couple who wants to protect their assets. \u00a0Since civil union divorce is not one that is regularly processed through the courts, a spouse may not be automatically be entitled to their estranged partners equity.<\/p>\n

“No one knows really understands how to process a civl-union divorce. \u00a0It’s new, there are a lot of things we don’t understand”, an unnamed attorney told me.<\/p>\n

Governor Abercrombie stated that the reason he chose to call\u00a0a special session this year rather than waiting for Hawaii’s regular legislative session next year was “because of implications on taxes for this year.”<\/p>\n

Some married couples that are dual income, and file jointly, undergo a marriage penalty tax. \u00a0To avoid these penalties, couples file separately. \u00a0 But how does a couple who is joined in a civil-union file their taxes for their State and Federal? \u00a0Civil-unions are not recognized in all 50 States, and the Federal Government doesn’t recognize them at all. \u00a0The truth is even if a civil-union couple is united under the term of marriage here in Hawaii, will other States recognize their marriage as legit? \u00a0 And what about the Federal Government? \u00a0The Fed’s don’t recognize civil-unions or same-sex marriages at all.<\/p>\n

It’s a mess.<\/p>\n

\"same-sex-hawaii-weddings-41<\/a>A military couple who finally could openly admit their love at their job, and legalized it here in Hawaii<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“The government doesn’t do much right. \u00a0In fact, I’m pretty sure they don’t do anything right. \u00a0So in my non-humble opinion, they should purely get out of the business of marriage. Should same-sex marriages be legalized? No. \u00a0Should regular marriages stay legalized? \u00a0No! The word legal marriage should be an oxymoron, and should not exist. Gays, Straights, LDS Mormons who want 10 wives, and that guy who wants to marry his car, should ban together and tell the government to stay out of our lives…and call for a movement to PRIVATIZE MARRIAGE.” – Steven Young. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

MY OPINION ON MARRIAGE….<\/span><\/h2>\n

I’m a Christian.<\/p>\n

But instead of spewing what you think you’ve heard before, I’m going to present to you a view that you may not have witnessed from churches, or even the Pope. \u00a0Because most organized religions don’t believe in what I’m about to say; even though what I say is biblical.<\/p>\n

In The Garden of Eden, God literally told Adam and Eve to become one in flesh (which meant sex) \u00a0with his newly found woman, and then once they had sex, they were husband and wife. \u00a0There was no marriage ceremony, no rings, no preacher, no church, \u00a0no vows, and no wedding planners involved. \u00a0And most importantly no government. \u00a0 \u00a0Just sex.<\/p>\n

So back in the day, if we go according to the Bible, marriage equaled sex. \u00a0God literally said, you slept with that woman, now she’s your wife. \u00a0And then Eve yelled at Adam, “Take out the trash honey!”<\/p>\n

My opinion, if you sleep with it (man, woman, animal, inanimate object) …your married to it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes. \u00a0Sex equals marriage, and this is why sex is much more than just a one-night stand, why sex isn’t right for kids, why sex is very important in holding a relationship together, and why when a spouse cheats on another, it is only considered really considered cheating if they sleep with their mistress. \u00a0This is also the reason why people who have a very large number of sexual partners, find it very hard with the idea of marriage. \u00a0It’s because they have literally been married many times, and they have just watered down it’s meaning. \u00a0Because not only had that person been through many spiritual marriages, but many spiritual divorces.<\/p>\n

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\"same-sex-hawaii-weddings-31<\/a>Over on the North Shore.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As a Christian, one would automatically say that I am against same-sex marriage., but I’m not.<\/p>\n

A Christian once told me that gays are sinners, and that the reason why gays shouldn’t be allow to marry, is because they would be living in sin, and go to hell.. \u00a0 Yes, gays are sinners. \u00a0 But every Christian is a sinner as well. \u00a0We’re all freaking sinners! \u00a0We’re all living in sin! \u00a0There is nowhere in the bible that where it says that Jesus will send all gays to hell. \u00a0 And who are they, “the religious judges”, to sit on the white throne of judgement and perform God’s job of determining who goes to heaven or hell. \u00a0Last I read in the Bible, the last thing to try to take over God’s job, Lucifer, was sent to hell.<\/p>\n

Just my two cents.<\/p>\n

By the way, I know I didn’t say this outright, but\u00a0my company definitely accepts the business of same-sex couples<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span> The only couples who I discriminate against are those who don’t pay.<\/p>\n

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  My first same-sex couple in 2008 SAME-SEX MARRIAGE MAY SOON BECOME LEGAL IN HAWAII Hawaii Governor, Neil Abercrombie, has called a special legislative session in the State of Hawaii to legalize same-sex marriage. \u00a0Here in Hawaii, same-sex couples (and heterosexual couples), can already legally unite through civil-unions. \u00a0Yes, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}