Honolulu Weekly

The question of civil unions is not one of love vs. bigotry–though they are present on both sides. It is one of honesty and integrity. A citizen is a citizen. You cannot create or maintain different levels of citizenship. People who pray to God using another name; people who come from a different group of Pacific islands; people whose love appears different; people who can afford no roof but the sky–these are not non-citizens, nor even second-class citizens.

They have the same right to be equally represented by their government–or that government is not valid.

Tom Luna
Honolulu