A progressive voice in Hawai'i promoting the positive healing role of religion in public life by encouraging dialogue, challenging extremism, and facilitating nonviolent community activism
Statement on same-sex marriage and civil rights
The Interfaith Alliance Hawai'i is made up of
clergy and lay-leaders representing more than 30 faith-based
traditions. Some of our faiths perform and recognize
same-sex marriages, some officially bless unions, and others do
neither. We find our diversity to be a source of strength.
We firmly believe that the state and federal governments have no
place in defining the sanctity of some traditions to the
exclusion of others, as pertaining to our diverse practices of
marriage. Given this, we firmly believe that a
constitutional amendment defining marriage is not appropriate.
We affirm the human dignity and worth of all people, thus we
support civil liberties and religious liberties, regardless of
sexual orientation. We also affirm that civil marriages
for same-sex couples performed by the state do not endanger any
of our religious traditions.