The U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the two same-sex marriage cases have substantially increased the short-term and medium-term benefits that could accrue to Hawai‘i if
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This report provides quantitative and qualitative measures of the impact of same-sex marriage on Hawai`i’s economy and government. We find that marriage equality is likely
The legislature is currently proposing bills to extend the legal definition of marriage to include same sex couples, and, and to grant those couples the same rights
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