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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Tue Nov 5, 2013, 11:50 PM Nov 2013

Hawaii police union pres. opposes LGBT marriage: ‘You would have to kill me’

Nominee for ASSHOLE BIGOT OF THE WEEK: Tenari Maafala!!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/05/hawaii-police-union-pres-opposes-lgbt-marriage-you-would-have-to-kill-me/

The president of the Hawaii police union on Monday expressed outraged at the idea that his state could pass a law legalizing marriage between members of the same sex.

Tenari Maafala told the state House that he had a duty to honor all laws as a law enforcement officer.

“The bottom line is this, the day I retire and bills like this are introduced, I will never ever honor such law,” he said. “You will have to kill me to dishonor my father in heaven, you would have to kill me to impose these types of laws upon my children, and my nieces and my nephews.”

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According to the Honolulu Civil Beat, Maafala claimed that “denying gay couples the right to marry is not discrimination if it’s against your beliefs.”....

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Hawaii police union pres. opposes LGBT marriage: ‘You would have to kill me’ (Original Post) theHandpuppet Nov 2013 OP
FUck him. The law passed committee, on to the House. MNBrewer Nov 2013 #1
WHa? defacto7 Nov 2013 #2
Deal. Fearless Nov 2013 #3
Same crap people said about interracial marriage. Lex Nov 2013 #4

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
2. WHa?
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 12:01 AM
Nov 2013

“denying gay couples the right to marry is not discrimination if it’s against your beliefs.”....

Now that's the stupidest thing I've heard today.

Lex

(34,108 posts)
4. Same crap people said about interracial marriage.
Wed Nov 6, 2013, 11:50 AM
Nov 2013

It was against their religious beliefs and they'd haul out some obscure Bible passage.

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