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University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin has given a month’s suspension without pay and a 7% salary cut as punishment for using the word “faggot” several times during a press conference. Greg McMackin, who attempted to apologize multiple times during the same press conference — he said he hoped the press wouldn’t report on what he said because he …

University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin apologized yesterday for using the word “faggot” several times while mocking a dance performed by Notre Dame players. McMackin used the slur during a speech to reporters yesterday at the Western Athletic Conference Football Preview, where each of the nine WAC coaches was allotted 30 minutes to talk about his football team. In …

After weeks of the most contentious public displays seen since Hawaii became a state, the Senate has killed the civil unions bill. An effort to force a vote on same-sex civil unions has failed in the Hawaii Senate, essentially killing the measure. Only six senators supported the legislative maneuver, short of the nine votes required for a full Senate vote. …

Anti-gay Massachusetts group MassResistance is celebrating their work towards blocking civil unions in Hawaii. MassResistance played a pivotal role in helping stop a major “civil unions” bill in the Hawaii Legislature, according to sources on both sides of the issue. At 9:00 a.m. on February 24, the Judiciary and Operations Committee of the Hawaii Legislature convened a public hearing on …

Here is the experience of lesbian blogger Keori outside the civil unions debate in the Hawaiian legislature. You know, it gets really tiresome to be called diseased and a pedophile and a rapist and an abomination and a threat to America three dozen times in one day. It infuriates me to hear that yes, heterosexuals have special rights (at least …

Thousands of red-shirted anti-gay Christian activists jammed Hawaii’s capitol building in Honolulu yesterday to protest a proposed bill legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples. In a turnout that surprised even event organizers, more than 2,000 people representing dozens of local churches, temples, synagogues and mosques descended on the state Capitol yesterday to protest a bill that would establish civil unions …

The Hawaii House of Representatives approved civil unions for same-sex couples yesterday. The state House yesterday passed a bill to legalize civil unions among same-sex partners, a vote several lawmakers believe will help end discrimination against gays and lesbians in Hawai’i. The bill, which now moves to the state Senate, would grant partners in civil unions the same benefits, protections …

Hawaii is on the verge of becoming the next state to grant civil unions to same-sex couples. A majority in the state House has signed on to a bill that would legalize civil unions, giving the issue a genuine chance of advancing this session after years of stagnation. Same-sex couples who obtain a license could have their civil union performed …