STATE HOUSE FAILS TO GUARANTEE EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL HAWAII FAMILIES

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STATE HOUSE FAILS TO GUARANTEE EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL HAWAII FAMILIES
Out Honululu
01 February, 2010


http://www.outinhonolulu.com/home/news.asp?articleid=33858


Equality Hawaii, the state's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, and the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBT civil rights organization, today denounced the Hawaii State House for failing to take up and pass HB 444 SD1, the state Civil Unions bill. The bill would have provided that the equal rights and responsibilities of married couples in Hawaii are afforded to thousands of non-married couples in the state. The House voted by voice vote to postpone the bill indefinitely, effectively killing the bill for the session.