My reaction to the HB444 Rally-APPALLED AND DISGUSTED

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MY OFFICIAL RESPONSE

You might want to examine the actions of the "Rabbi Daniel Vargas", who, according to legitimate synagogues is NOT an ordained rabbi, and his screaming that the buildings should fall and the city should be destroyed and then having people blow 10 ram horns was considered highly blasphemous to the Jewish faith. Also, Mufi Hanneman and Duke Aiona are public servants and have a conflict of interest by showing up and espousing their religious beliefs at the state capitol which is not Gods house but ALL OF THE POEPLE'S HOUSE, including taxpaying gay legal citizens of the state of Hawaii. What that means, is that by association, these two politicians were in favor of crashing down buildings by blowing ram horns, and therefore share in the fake rabbis blasphemous sin of misusing the name of another legitimate religious belief. Truly shameful.

Were all of you wearing white because you think yourself more pure than the rest of the people in this state? It was quite gruesome, and I found the videos of the event quite disturbing. Native Hawaiians believed the color white to be the color of evil, and it was the color of all practicing anaana kahunas (ie the ones that prayed people to death). It is also the color used in voodoo ceremonies to pray an enemy to death. That, coupled with the screaming fake rabbi calling for the destruction of public property was nothing to be proud of.

Further, civil unions have nothing to do with religious marriage practices, and will not affect YOUR marriage status at all, therefore I do not understand what your issue is with a secular process, since it has nothing to do with any of your religious beliefs, since according to all of you gays are not permitted in all of your religions, why would you have a problem with it? Its not as if they will be joining any of you in your churches or religions anyway.

SO why don't you just stick to your religious beliefs and practice whatever you want to in your religious life, and leave the secular civil unions alone? It really has nothing to do with any of you, and is not about any of you, and none of you have any stake in it what so ever. Frankly it is none of your business. Further, I am apalled that Mufi who claims to be a Democrat would publicly attend an event like this, and be openly prejudiced against people. I thought only republicans did that shame on all of you. For the record, I am not gay., but straight.

Further, it is entirely reprehensible to me that so many people could be whipped into a frenzy over religious zealotism. Haven't you people learned anything from Jihadist terrorist groups making Islam look like a mockery of itself. You are nothing more than terrorists. Yes terrorists. You are inciting violence against your fellow human beings, you are publicly supporting prejudice, and you are coming out in force to say that some people do not deserve the same CIVIL RIGHTS as you do. WHen I see people of color, and young people in those crowds that's when I really become sick to my stomach.

How many of you are aware that people of color could NOT HOLD OFFICE IN THE MORMON CHURCH as recently as the 80s!!!! And that would include MUFI HANNEMAN!!! I was once enrolled in the Mormon church and was a convert. Not anymore. I found the more I realized what that religion was all about the least I wanted to do with it. I was grown up as a DEVOUT CATHOLIC!!! ANd I was so devout, I went to a Catholic private school, and believed in the church wholeheartedly. That was until all the priests started molesting little boys and girls, and I found out the histories of abuse, murder, torture and mayhem perpetuated in the name of Christ by the Catholic church. What are all of you talking about anyways? Is traditional marriage truly traditional?

I happen to know no fewer than THREE MORMON BISHOPS that have left their wives and children to fool around with mistresses. HOW IS THIS TRADTIONAL FAMILY VALUES? That really turned me off to the Mormon Church permanently and forever. But this show of prejudice, hate and fearmongering is the last straw for me. Do not expect me to stand by while all of you espouse your holy perfections and holier than thou attitudes while you continue to belong to religions that support such reprehensible beliefs. If Christ was here, he would throw you all out of the House of the Lord, let me tell you that. Christ was very political. All of you are like the Pharisees in the bible, which you all claim to espouse so perfectly.

The Pharisees were the conservative, judgmental law of the land who thought they were the be all and the end all of moral values. Christ ran around with 12 men, kissed them publicly on the cheek regularly and was unmarried and had no children. If Christ were alive today, you people all gathered there with your self righteous pompous attitudes would have surely accused him of being gay. DO NOT LIE because you KNOW YOU WOULD HAVE. You would be the ones to have condemned him, nailed him to a cross, and killed Christ, who would have died for your idiocy and stupidity. SO DO NOT TELL ME that you are all about CHRIST!!

There is NOTHING CHRISTLIKE in ANY of you, at all. I remain forever disgusted and embarrassed for each and every single one of you. When your time comes you will be most certainly judged. I am no longer a Christian, but I do believe in Christ. Believing in Christ is far different from being these modern styled self righteous judgmental prejudiced people that these individuals have become. Sickening. Shame.

WORDS SCEWED BY RADICAL RIGHT EXTREMISTS:Dem Candidate: Devout Catholics 'Probably Shouldn't Work in the Emergency Room'

Dem Candidate: Devout Catholics 'Probably Shouldn't Work in the Emergency Room'

Ok, Let us be real clear about what the Democratic candidate was saying. Essentially it is pretty crystal clear, except if you are trying to twist her words to serve your own personal agenda.

If you are a health care worker, your job is not to deny items that could save a life and prevent the spread of deadly diseases becasue of your personal religious beliefs. If that is a problem for you, then pick another feild to work in,. The medical field is not a church where your religious beliefs rule the day. You are there to provide life saving medical care, not deny that care based on your beliefs. It is the same premise that supposes if you were a teacher, but you found teaching math, science and english a burden for you because of your religious beliefs. So, the assumption is that maybe you don't belong in a classroom teaching then. Let is not let word twisting rhetoric that is so obviously being applied here skew the facts. I would be appalled if medical care for me was held back because of someones religious beliefs no matter what religion that is. Suppose someone had a deeply held religious belief that women should not receive an emergency c section because they believe only in vaginal birth because god ordains it that way or something? Come on, people GROW UP!!

Let Us Hope It deosn't SINK! "Superferry To Be Used for Haitian EQ Relief"

Superferry To Be Used for Haitian EQ Relief

I find this facinating, since all of the ports of Haiti are completely destroyed, and it is going on one week since the disaster, and there is no way that the SF could have been used for immediate releif, becasue there are no workable ports at this time at PoP. Now, if the SF is being used this way, good for it. However, it does not mean that what happened to the SF in Hawaii was a bad thing. The ship belongs in military use, obviously. However, what do SF proponents have to say about other SF which sank with passengers aboard earlier this year? Im just sayin, people.

SuperFerry sinks off Zambo Norte coast

Disaster cause still not clear

Associated Press, Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:25:00 09/07/2009

Filed Under: Maritime Accidents, Waterway & Maritime Transport

MANILA, Philippines—The text messages to relatives came early Sunday from passengers aboard the SuperFerry 9 midway on a voyage from General Santos City to Iloilo City that the vessel carrying more than 900 people was listing to its starboard side.

Rosalie Solarte, 40, said she called her husband Alberto, 52, at around 5:30 a.m.

“He said he was about to jump from the ship,” said Solarte, one of about 20 people who had rushed to the Iloilo port to ask about the fate of their relatives aboard the ill-fated vessel.

“I told him to wait and observe first what is happening. I can’t contact him now,” the Guimaras resident told the Inquirer.

As dawn broke in waters off the Zamboanga peninsula on a clear day, the SuperFerry 9 had capsized, according to officials, leaving at least twelve people dead in the panic and scramble for the exits.

Coast Guard chief Adm. Wilfredo Tamayo said that as of 9 p.m. Sunday night, 926 survivors had been rescued—some of them on life rafts—by two commercial ships and several Philippine Navy vessels and taken to Zamboanga City.

A search was under way for more than 30 people who remained missing, Tamayo said, adding that they may have drifted with their life jackets or have been rescued but were not yet listed as survivors.

“We really hope they’re just unaccounted for due to the confusion,” Tamayo said.

Navy ships were deployed and Air Force helicopters scoured the seas, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro said.

The US military station in Zamboanga City conducting antiterrorist training dispatched a support vessel with a medical team to help in the search.

Survivor Raffy Borro said it was his first time to see babies and children thrown out to the water as their mothers cried.

"Parang Titanic Filipino-style. Para kaming nasa pelikula pero totoo talaga (It was like Titanic Filipino-style. It was like being in a movie scene but this was all real)," Borro told the Inquirer.

He reported a shortage in life jackets and life rafts.

"Agawan. Maginaw. Madilim. Kaya natakot lahat tumalon sa dagat. Noong mabilis ang pagtagilid, ang daming tumakbo at nag-panic, maraming natakot. Ang mga bata nag-iiyakan, mga magulang iyakan hingi ng tulong (People were grappling for life jackets. It was cold. Dark. That’s why people were so scared, they just jumped into the sea. When we felt the ship listing fast, many ran and panicked. The kids were crying and the parents were wailing for help)," Borro recalled.

Passenger Chelona Pabit of Trento town in Agusan province said she saw babies and children being thrown out of the boat. "It was like you were leaving it all up to fate on who will survive," Pabit said.

Before leaving the General Santos City port Saturday morning, Pabit said, she heard a loud bang below the boat.

"Then the boat started to tilt. We were travelling on a tilted boat," Pabit said.

Pabit said she even asked a ship crew why the boat was tilted, and all the response was: "strong wind and waves."

Romeo Billano, 62, had the same observation.

"It was like a container van slammed on the wall below," Billano said.

"There were no big waves. The weather was fine," he added.

All Billano had with him as he jumped off the boat was a piece of paper where the mobile phone number of his daughter was written.

Roderick Teves, a driver and one of the survivors, told Bombo Radyo-GenSan in a mobile phone interview that 19 crew members of Tanging Pamilya were aboard the ill-fated ferry.

But Teves said only nine of them were rescued.

"I don't know whether my 10 other colleagues were rescued by other vessels who helped in the rescue efforts," he said in Tagalog.

Teves identified eight co-workers who were saved with him as Joe Carlo Aquino, Joseph Noble, Raniel Billones, Manuel Malixi, Victor Gevilo, Mike Lungos, John Michael Roselo and Gaspar Capalar Jr.

Teves, a resident of Libis, Quezon City, claimed that their equipment and two service trucks sank with the vessel.

He revealed that around 2 a.m., the passenger ship tilted to the right, when container vans apparently slid to the right.

"I guess the ship lost its balance. We were on the vessel waiting for the rescue. Other passengers who panicked grabbed life jackets and jumped off the ship," he said.

Cause of sinking unclear

The cause of the listing was not clear.

The ferry skipper, Joel Yap, initially ordered everyone on board to abandon the ship as a precautionary step, said Jess Supan, vice president of Aboitiz Transport System, which owns the steel-hulled ferry built in Japan in 1986.

Supan said the vessel carried 847 passengers, a crew of 117 and four sea marshals.

Supan ruled out a terrorist attack as the cause of the disaster, similar to the February 2004 assault carried out by the Abu Sayyaf bandit group on SuperFerry 14 that killed 116 people aboard.

But survivor Jude Borro, a resident of General Santos, belied the claim of Supan that the vessel captain gave instructions to passengers to abandon ship.

"There was no instruction from the captain. The ship's crew were even the first to jump off the vessel. The passengers helped each other," Borro said during the same interview.

Borro said the SuperFerry 9 was apparently overloaded.

Borro claimed that about two hours after cruising past Zamboanga City, he heard a thunderous noise from under the vessel where the container vans where loaded.

There were reports that the ferry listed to the right due to a hole in the hull, the National Disaster Coordinating Council said.

Potential oil spill

The 7,000-ton vessel was carrying 220 tons of fuel oil, Supan said, adding that the salvage ship Harbour had been sent to the area to contain any possible oil spill.

He said the Coast Guard had also called a team from Palawan with oil booms and oil dispersants.

Passenger Roger Cinciron told dzMM radio by cell phone that he felt the ferry was tilting around midnight, but he was assured by a crewman that everything was well.

About two hours later, he was roused from sleep by the sound of crashing cargo below his cabin, he said.

“People began to panic because the ship was really tilting,” he said as he waited for rescuers to save him and a group of more than 20 other passengers.

The ferry, which left General Santos City at 8:45 a.m. on Saturday and was scheduled to arrive in Iloilo at 2 p.m. Sunday, ran into problems midway and began to list about 15 kilometers from the nearest shore, Tamayo said.

Fair weather

The weather was generally fair in the vicinity of the Zamboanga peninsula, although a tropical storm was battering the country’s north, the Coast Guard said.

SuperFerry 9 “encountered an undefined problem 17.5 nautical miles off Sibuco Port, Zamboanga del Norte, at 3:35 a.m.,” the maritime police said.

The ship captain then instructed passengers and crew to abandon the sinking vessel, which at the time continued to list to its starboard side.

In its 8:30 a.m. update Sunday, the Philippine Navy said the vessel had already capsized with “bottom hull sighted” some 5.2 nautical miles southwest of Tulalu Point, Sibuco Bay.

Previous accidents

Last year, the MV Princess of the Stars overturned after sailing toward a powerful typhoon off Romblon, killing more than 800 people on board.

In December 1987, the MV Doña Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker in the Philippines, killing more than 4,341 people in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster.

Among those in the Iloilo port waiting for word of survivors was Elvira Casumlon, 71, of Badiangan town in Iloilo province. Her son, Pepito Jr., 31, was aboard the vessel, traveling with his wife Lita, 36, 7-year-old son Christopher and neighbor Sueden Bolero.

‘I pray that they’re safe’

“I last heard from them Saturday morning when the ship left. I kept on calling them but I failed to contact them,” Elvira said.

Teresita Monijaque from Leganes town in Iloilo has been sending text messages and dialing her cell phone in the hope of reaching her 29-year-old son Jobert and 3-year-old granddaughter Name.

“He sent a text message around 3:15 a.m. that the boat was sinking. I pray that they’re safe,” she said.

Others who arrived early at the shipping port to fetch their kin were shocked to hear that the ship sank.

“I only knew what happened when I got here,” said Giovanni Projio, who came from Sigma town in Capiz province to meet his father-in-law.

Frantic calls from relatives swamped radio stations who covered the rescue operations. Others waited at the radio stations which were trying to call passengers. With reports from Tarra Quismundo, Riza T. Olchondra, Amy Remo, Marlon Ramos, Kristine L. Alave and Nikko Dizon in Manila; Nestor P. Burgos Jr., Inquirer Visayas; Julie Alipala and Aquiles Zonio, Inquirer Mindanao, and Associated Press