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Monday, October 20, 2014
Government to Ordained Ministers: Celebrate Same-Sex Wedding or Go to Jail
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:08 PM :: 7554 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding....

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Sunday, October 12, 2014
Hawaii Churches Join Pulpit Freedom Sunday
By News Release @ 4:04 AM :: 5602 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

...a statement agreeing that the IRS should not control the content of a pastor’s sermon....

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Hawaii Atheists Move to Michigan, Begin Suing
By Selected News Articles @ 5:18 PM :: 7086 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

...Kahle and Huber moved from Hawaii to Norton Shores (MI) last year....

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Saturday, October 4, 2014
Hawaii Family Forum Publishes 2014 Voter Guide
By News Release @ 3:22 PM :: 9161 Views :: Family, Life, Politicians, Religion

The Hawaii Family Forum/Hawaii Catholic Conference voter guide for the General Election is now available.... 

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Research Institute for Hawaii USA Hit With $843K Fine
By News Release @ 10:39 PM :: 8316 Views :: Hawaii History, Politicians, Republican Party, Religion

... holding the Research Institute for Hawaii USA (RIH), and its CEO Christopher Damon Haig, liable for religious and sexual harassment ....

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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Problem with Ideology in Politics
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:39 PM :: 6153 Views :: Religion, GMOs

...Ideology has no basis in evidence or reason. It is based in a core set of beliefs, just like religion....

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Honolulu City Lights non-profit display application deadline is August 29
By News Release @ 8:53 PM :: 6606 Views :: Honolulu County, First Amendment, Religion

Applications must be received by this Friday, August 29 before 4:30 p.m. at the Mission Memorial Building next to Honolulu Hale, 550 South King St....

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Sunday, July 13, 2014
Hobby Lobby: Overwrought Divisions?
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:01 PM :: 5638 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

The pitch of public controversy surrounding cultural issues...can give the impression that we live in an intractably divided society with incompatible differences.  But the Hobby Lobby decision suggests that such a tone is overwrought....

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Thursday, July 10, 2014
U.S. Senate Democrats introduce bill to counter Hobby Lobby decision
By Malia Zimmerman @ 4:47 AM :: 6697 Views :: First Amendment, Religion, Small Business

Schatz is among several Senate Democrats trying to counter the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case....

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Sunday, June 29, 2014
VIDEO: ‘Persecuted’ Opens in Hawaii July 18
By Video @ 5:13 PM :: 6361 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
  • Dole Cannery 18 Honolulu
  • Pearl Highlands 12 Pearl City
  • Keauhou Cinemas 7 Kailua Kona
  • Maui Mall Megaplex 12 Kahului
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
Dozens Rally at Capitol for Religious Freedom
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 9658 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

dozens rallied Saturday at the capitol to promote voter registration in churches and to defend religious freedom....

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Friday, June 20, 2014
Voter Registration Drive Set for Hawaii Catholic Churches June 21-22
By News Release @ 5:24 AM :: 8124 Views :: First Amendment, Office of Elections, Religion

We ask all those who are not already registered to fill out a voter registration application, which will be made available to you at Mass the weekend of June 21/22....

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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Takai, Cabanilla Inside Azerbaijan’s Bizarre Hawaii Lobbying Push
By Selected News Articles @ 4:10 AM :: 7086 Views :: Politicians, Religion

Azerbaijan has launched an unusual campaign to win influence among U.S. lawmakers, teaming up with a Turkish guru in exile and the sister of Texas Gov. Rick Perry....

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Court Guts Atheist Lawsuit Against Oahu Churches
By News Release @ 6:27 PM :: 10091 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

A Hawaii court decided Tuesday to dismiss most of a renewed lawsuit against two Oahu churches....

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Legislative Prayer, Tradition, and the Establishment Clause
By Robert Thomas @ 5:22 AM :: 5908 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

...U.S. Supreme Court held that town council meetings could open with a prayer without violating the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause....

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Monday, May 5, 2014
US Supreme Court strongly affirms that Americans are free to pray
By News Release @ 1:57 PM :: 5406 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

“As a practice that has long endured, legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition...That a prayer is given in the name of Jesus, Allah, or Jehovah, or that it makes passing references to religious doctrines, does not remove it from that tradition.” -- US Supreme Court

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Which kills more: ideology or religion?
By Selected News Articles @ 12:40 AM :: 18255 Views :: Environment, Religion
... the greens have topped them all ....
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Friday, April 18, 2014
From Good Friday to a Celebratory Weekend
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:48 AM :: 3838 Views :: Religion
... President Ronald Reagan’s Radio Address to the Nation on the Observance of Easter and Passover, April 2, 1983 ....

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Monday, April 7, 2014
Alliance Defending Freedom asks court to dismiss renewed attack on Hawaii churches
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 6643 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

...atheists are once again falsely accusing the two churches, One Love Ministries and Calvary Chapel Central Oahu, of defrauding the government even though the court dismissed their claims earlier this year....

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
ACLU Sues, Claims Pre-K Program Not Secular Enough
By Selected News Articles @ 4:33 PM :: 6849 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion
"It is not enough to allow students or their families to 'opt out' of portions of the program which are religious in nature," the ACLU says....
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Legislators Consider Permanent Hunt for Old Child Molesters--Except those Employed by Government
By Selected News Articles @ 10:21 PM :: 6766 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, Religion

Two dozen civil lawsuits have been filed during the past two years in what state lawmakers initially intended as a one-time opportunity....

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Saturday, March 22, 2014
Catch the Wave of HOPE with Nick Vujicic at Aloha Stadium
By News Release @ 1:06 PM :: 9450 Views :: Life, Religion

Speaker brings anti-bullying message to isles: Nick Vujicic, born without arms or legs, will stop on Oahu, Maui and Kauai to begin a national tour....

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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Happiness, free enterprise, and human flourishing: Dalai Lama at American Enterprise Institute
By News Release @ 8:32 PM :: 5051 Views :: Religion

...human flourishing requires more than material prosperity. Spiritual development and ethical leadership are indispensable....

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Friday, February 14, 2014
How They Voted: House Rejects Religious Freedom Restoration Act
By Hawaii Family Advocates @ 4:15 PM :: 7481 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

...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....

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Friday, February 14, 2014
Atheist Scores $200K from New Hope Lawsuit Settlement
By News Release @ 1:48 AM :: 8425 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion
The settlement occurred with churches not represented by Alliance Defending Freedom....
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Video: Homosexual Child Molester's Alleged Victims Describe Grooming Process at Maui Pineapple Camp
By Video @ 8:58 PM :: 7849 Views :: Family, Labor, Religion

...alleged victims of homosexual child molestation who give a very clear description of how homosexual child molesters single out and groom boys....

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Monday, January 20, 2014
How MLK's Faith Influenced His Public Life
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:30 PM :: 5183 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
King explained that “just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”
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Friday, January 17, 2014
HB744 Forces Gay Agenda on Hawaii Churches
By Hawaii Family Advocates @ 10:57 PM :: 8740 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

...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....

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Friday, January 10, 2014
Hawaii churches prevail against atheists’ baseless lawsuit
By News Release @ 6:15 PM :: 6137 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

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

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Monday, January 6, 2014
Hawaii Family Forum: Organizing for Life, Family, and Religious Freedom
By News Release @ 8:15 PM :: 7673 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

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

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Friday, January 3, 2014
Meet the Humble Nuns Who Just Shook Up the Obama Administration
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:51 AM :: 6083 Views :: First Amendment, Health Care, Religion

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

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Friday, December 20, 2013
Judge Throws Out Atheist Lawsuit
By News Release @ 3:45 AM :: 8376 Views :: First Amendment, Religion

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

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Alleged Homosexual Child Molestation Leads to 3rd Lawsuit
By News Release @ 10:16 PM :: 5609 Views :: Family, Religion

...as a seven‐year‐old student at St. Anthony's grade school in 1975 when homosexual then‐Father Joseph Ferrario began to groom and sexually molest him....

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Friday, November 22, 2013
The Christmas Candle Now Playing in Hawaii
By News Release @ 2:24 PM :: 4143 Views :: Religion

The Christmas Candle is scheduled to be shown at the Honolulu - Regal Dole Cannery Stadium 18....

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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Diamond Sangha's Secret: From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women
By Selected News Articles @ 1:17 PM :: 7039 Views :: Hawaii History, Religion

Aitken never went public with what he knew about Shimano, not in 1964, and not for the next half century until his death....

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Honolulu Muslim Eye-Gouge Attacker Tied to Staten Island Jihadi
By Selected News Articles @ 1:44 PM :: 8530 Views :: Law Enforcement, Military, Religion

...he was subpoenaed to testify in New York in a terrorism case against a friend he met in a Hono­lulu mosque....

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Sunday, November 10, 2013
NYT to Hawaiians: We Tell You What Your Culture is
By News Release @ 9:52 PM :: 9179 Views :: Family, Hawaii History, Religion

As a Native Hawaiian Christian, allow me a response....

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Thursday, November 7, 2013
'Surf Art and the Surfer' Art Exhibition
By News Release @ 5:16 AM :: 3588 Views :: Religion

November 15 & 16, 2013 -- Surfing The Nations presents “Surf Art and the Surfer” art show at 63 Kamehameha Hwy, Wahiawa

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Friday, October 25, 2013
OHA Chair Colette Machado: Same Sex Marriage Will Affect our Traditional Sense of 'Ohana
By Video @ 10:46 PM :: 8941 Views :: Family, OHA, Religion

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Friday, October 25, 2013
Hawaii-Based New Age Hucksters Fight Over $5M Donation from “sap”
By Selected News Articles @ 6:16 PM :: 4420 Views :: Religion

Among folks in the Hawaii chocolate-making community, where Walsh once worked, the 62-year-old is known as a smooth talker with a string of failed businesses and debts....

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Friday, October 25, 2013
Bishop Silva: Respect Human Ecology, Gay Marriage is not 'Equal'
By News Release @ 2:30 PM :: 6747 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

the major concern should not be giving this or that same-sex couple the ability to be married, but rather the long-term and profound societal implications such a concession would have....

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
‘The Saratov Approach’ Coming to Laie
By Video @ 6:57 PM :: 4901 Views :: Religion

...the real-life story of two Mormon missionaries who were kidnapped and tortured in Russia, has quietly become a local box office hit...

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Hawaii LDS Churches Release New Letter on Gay Marriage
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 PM :: 7141 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

"There are two reasons for our opposition: First, it attempts to redefine marriage. The church is firm in its belief that marriage as the union of a man and a woman is essential to the well-being of children, families, and society. Second, the protections offered in the current draft are completely inadequate to safeguard constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms...."

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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Hawaii churches ask court to dismiss atheists’ baseless lawsuit
By News Release @ 5:49 PM :: 6389 Views :: Education K-12, First Amendment, Religion

“These churches have not only faithfully paid all of their rent, they’ve sacrificially given much more in service and funding to the schools and communities they love,” added co-counsel James Hochberg....

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Sunday, September 22, 2013
First Amendment: 14 Gay Marriage Laws vs Abercrombie
By Andrew Walden @ 9:46 PM :: 8823 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion
... the religious freedom clauses of Abercrombie’s proposed gay marriage bill are substantially weaker than the language used by other states....
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
US House: Bipartisan Marriage and Religious Freedom Act Introduced—60 Cosponsors
By News Release @ 8:52 PM :: 6240 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

...the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act would prohibit discrimination through the federal tax code against individuals or institutions that exercise religious conscience regarding marriage as the union of one man and one woman....

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Thursday, September 19, 2013
Full Text: Hawaii Mormon Church Letter focuses on Religious Exemption
By News Release @ 11:28 AM :: 7191 Views :: Family, Religion

Protect religious organizations and officials from being required to support or perform same-sex marriages or from having to host same-sex marriages or celebrations in their facilities and protect individuals and small businesses from being required to assist in promoting or celebrating same-sex marriages ....

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Friday, September 13, 2013
Gay Marriage Bill Violates First Amendment
By Andrew Walden @ 11:23 PM :: 9346 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Religion

Gay marriage on the line in the October 28 special legislative session, but apparently Governor Neil Abercrombie is willing to risk losing the vote for a crack at imposing government dogma on Hawaii's religious believers....

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Friday, September 6, 2013
Liberalism Radicalized: The Sexual Revolution, Multiculturalism, and the Rise of Identity Politics
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:07 PM :: 8187 Views :: Family, Higher Education, Religion

...a more radical form of liberalism emerged in the academy that sowed the seeds for the sexual revolution and multiculturalism....

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Thursday, September 5, 2013
Makana Sued by Manager: “Arrogant, Obnoxious, New Age Pontificator”
By Selected News Articles @ 3:52 PM :: 7739 Views :: Ethics, Religion

Makana breached contract by refusing to work "when planet Mercury is in retrograde ... approximately six months per year," his former manager claims in court....

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