Religion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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

“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

...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....

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

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....

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

...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....

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

...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....

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

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

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

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

...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....

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

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

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

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

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

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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....

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....

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

"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...."

“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....

...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....

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 ....

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....

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

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