From: HawaiiGay1@aol.com Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:39:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Hawaii - Letter to Editor - Star-Bulletin Opposes Equal Protection of Gays Aloha Folks. Even we at the GLEA Foundation send letters to the editors. This is one that will - like so many others - not be printed. But at least you know we are aware of the Star-Bulletin's growing opposition to our equal rights. Do good Bill Hawaii Gay Marriage Project GLEA Foundation PS: There is a need for letters to editor of both papers in Hawaii, particularlly from Hawaii residents. Subj: Letter to Editor Date: 97-04-15 15:29:27 EDT From: HawaiiGay1 To: letters@starbulletin.com Dear Editor, Your editorials (and some letters to editor) actually discussing limited rights for groups our citizens does not show much movement towards understanding of Constitutional equal protection. Just a couple of years ago your editorials stated that the marriage should not be limited to opposite sex couples as you based your position on equal protection and historical prohibition of marriage of couples of different races and religions. Many times you wrote that the legislature should allow the courts to finish the process to assure that equal protection was in fact a reality in Hawaii. Now your editorials believe that it is OK to legislate organized religious discrimination, hatred and fear of Gay people out of equal protection rights. Do you now believe people should have equal protection based upon race, religion, and sex? Did you believe so and act accordingly when these issues were being visited by the suffrage movement and women' rigth to vote, Brown Vs the Board of Education, Roe vs. Wade? We all seem to get and believe in equality after we have collectively been a part of the perpetuation that equal should not be equal for all - all the time. You sure give us, the readers, a reason to discount your editorials. They seem to blow in the wind. Sincerely, William E. Woods, MPH Executive Director Gay and Lesbian Education and Advocacy Foundation W. 532-9000