From: WEWoodsMPH@aol.com Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:19:14 EDT Subject: Hawaii Attack Begins - 700 Club and Mormon Missionary Agenda Begins Hawaii Attack Begins - 700 Club and Mormon Missionary Agenda Begins Aloha Folks, Please redistribute as possible - We are being attacked! My letter to below is in response to new propaganda being put out to our Hawaii public through the Honolulu Advertiser. Changing the facts and turning the propaganda tables on us. It actually reflects the agenda of the outside forces of 700 Club and Mormons conducting a missionary overthrow of our constitutional equality. The original letter is below my response. I encourage you to review the issues and facts and respond accordingly. Do good William E. Woods, MPH ** Editor Honolulu Advertiser Via: Email 76322.2016@compuserve.com I know this letter is a little long for your letters, but each section covers an important element in the Tanaka letter that was extremely erroneous and detrimental to the truth and reality of this important issue. I sincerely hope you will use all of the letter. William E. Woods, MPH June 18, 1998 Dear Editor: Lance Tanaka's letter proclaiming Hawaii's pursuit of equality and justice regarding marriage, as a "mainlanders pro-Gay agenda" is a patent falsehood that is part of a true outside missionary's propaganda agenda. Hawaii's same-sex marriage lawsuit was the result of more than nine years of my research into systemic discrimination against Gay men and women. During that time each and every civil rights and Gay rights organization in America was contacted with only one, the Gay Rights Advocates of San Francisco offering any assistance to me. In fact, almost all others conducted extensive press activities to put down the Hawaii effort to seek legal justice through the courts. To actually begin the legal process I founded the GLEA (Gay and Lesbian Education and Advocacy) Foundation and the Hawaii Gay Marriage Project that brought together the three couples in the lawsuit and hired the attorney to file the case. As the Hawaii case was winding itself through the Hawaii court system these same naysayers put out a great deal of publicity condemning our local actions for justice. Now, that we have established three successful legal stating that the discrimination and denial of legal marriage licenses was unjust and a violation of our civil rights, these same organizations have proclaimed support and many have claimed ownership of the idea and initial efforts they initially condemned. Needless to say history was rewritten by these modern- day money-changers to promote their current fundraising efforts. But what Tanaka has said is even more pernicious to the people of Hawaii. His statement, that the legal challenge was orchestrated in part by mainland lawyers, is false in totality. His series of propaganda statements is identical to statements made during the past few years by Republican TV Evangelist Pat Robertson on his 700 Club Program. All the initial challenges to our lawsuit was by the nationally Rutherford Institute which created a local organization after hearing of our initial legal success. Pat Robertson and the 700 Club through their legal arm, AJCU, and their national political arm, the Christian Coalition, he has orchestrated a national propaganda package and tour. This national propaganda machine has included Hawaii during the past few years and included the filing of their own legal challenges to the Hawaii lawsuit and even funded other "local" challenges such as the so-called minority legislator's challenge. Since the onslaught of Robertson and the first national attacks, Salt Lake City and the Mormon religious and business empire has since organized their fiscal and personnel resources, missionaries and lobbying efforts to engage their national interest and control over our local equality and justice system. We, in Hawaii, have all been harmed by the historical carpet-begging missionaries who came to town to change the ignorant natives and then assume ownership of the land and businesses. We are now in the biggest missionary overthrow of Hawaii's government in our history; conducted mostly through doublespeak propaganda trying to turn their mainland origins and resources around by telling everyone it is those seeking judicial justice who are organized from outside this community. Do good, William E. Woods, MPH P.O. Box 37083 Honolulu, Hawaii 96837 (808) 537-2000 ** HONOLULU ADVERTISER P.O. Box 3110 Honolulu, Hawai`i 96802 tiser@aloha.net June 18, 1998 LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MARRIAGE LAWS Blame Mainlanders for pro-gay agenda Jackie Young's attempt to blame support for a constitutional amendment against same-sex marriage on "Mainland Missionaries" (Advertiser, June 10) is pathetic. Polls consistantly show there is less support for same-sex marriage in Hawai`i than on the mainland. As a matter of fact, the choice of Hawai`i as a place to bring the lawsuit challenging the state's marriage was orchestrated ni part by Mainland lawyers. Support for same-sex marriage here comes mainly from radical gay and lesbian organizations based on the mainland. Despite her efforts to play to local prejudice, Young is a tool (witting or unwitting) of Mainlanders who want to foist their pro-homosexual agenda on Hawai`i so their home states will eventually have to follow suit. Local people should refuse to be swayed by her inaccurate (not to mention bigoted) characterization of same-sex opponents as "Mainlanders." Lance Tanaka, Kane`ohe