New theologies are born at a flash point where a group of people refuse to believe that God does not want them or love them.

These people don’t want me. The church doesn’t want me. They don’t have a place for me. And I’ll just keep doing this good work, taking care of people. That’s got to mean something. And I love it. I enjoy it.

Right. It’s my life. I always believe that we are much more passionate about what we believe than we are about trying to destroy someone else’s belief. I’m speaking out of what I do know, what I have lived.

Absolutely. Yes. And trash it! You abandon it and trash it. It’s hopeless.

What we’ve got to do is to help people who are like me help people to understand the importance of self-love that doesn’t make you compromise and lie about who you are.

and we started discussing scripture and religious thought

How do I reach my mother?

supersede your law, because your law is designed for people who have the privilege and the ability to keep it.

So the dilemma was, how can we make them members when their situation was the definition for adultery and fornication—because they were not free to make these decisions on their own.

nation-within-a-nation recognition

Hawai i has been called a laboratory of race relations based on its carefully cultivated image as a place where people of different cultures have historically lived together and fused.

“If we ever make it off this planet to the stars, if TMT discovers planets that are habitable, we could give them Hawaiian names,” said Higa, who is of Chinese, Japanese and Okinawan ancestry. “The culture would be perpetuated. Those names would continue for the future of humanity.”

“They were up there peacefully,” he said. “What was the emergency proclamation for? What they are doing is not anything wrong.”

But Guiao, a Filipino American attending the University of Hawaii Manoa, is split “50-50” on whether the telescope should go to the Canary Islands

Those surveyed were also asked, “How important is the potential positive scientific impact of the Thirty Meter Telescope to your overall opinion of the project?” A majority of 57% responded “very important.”

“It’s like a temple,” he said. “From where we live in Kamuela, that is the only mountain we look up to.”

“I strongly support the telescope — I think it’s a good idea to be able to see into the sky,” said Gary Heiligman of Kailua, who is 73.

he survey was also completed before Monday’s announcement that the international consortium pushing for TMT to be built on Mauna Kea is also seeking a permit for an alternative site in the Canary Islands. However, the TMT officials say they intend to continue to pursue Mauna Kea as their top choice

By a more than 2-to-1 margin — 64% to 31% — of registered voters in Hawaii who were polled say they favor building the state-of-the-art telescope, most of them strongly in support. Only 3% say they are unsure while another 3% say the issue does not matter to them.

“I don’t think I’m in any kind of hurry to come to a solution of how we govern ourselves,” he says. In order for Hawaiians to truly control their own future, “we need to transition slowly into a different kind of economy that preserves our own ability to control our own destiny.”

“There’s so many things to be dealt with in Hawaii that if we suddenly have a new government … I just have a strong suspicion that it wouldn’t be independent of anything,” Osorio says.

“The government part of this in many ways is not as important as the patriotism, the belief that our people are a separate people, are not Americans and that has become more and more prevalent.”

“I actually think that the sovereignty we have been working toward … it’s really about our language, it’s about becoming more politically (engaged), it’s about being able to practice our culture, being able to identify ourselves not as Americans but as Hawaiians,” he says

divide between those Native Hawaiians who oppose the TMT on Mauna Kea and other Hawaii residents who largely support the telescope.

1990s, OHA supporters were disillusioned by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Rice v. Cayetano that allowed non-Hawaiians to vote for OHA trustees.

Throughout the 1970s, many Hawaiians participated in protests against evictions and new developments, including successfully opposing the Navy’s use of Kahoolawe as a bombing range.

“Our obligation is to protect all of those things that were left to us by our ancestors,” he adds. “The immediate goal is to unify and participate in the existing government so as to protect what we need to survive.”

“The immediate next step is to get Hawaiians to realize political power only happens if you register to vote and if you vote.”

He says the first step to independence is building power within the state.

Political sovereignty is a controversial issue that continues to divide the Native Hawaiian community as a whole.

some Native Hawaiians have been outspoken in their support of the telescope.

up until this point it hasn’t been something that has brought our people together. It’s been something that put us on a different side of the fence

But Mauna Kea is also a symptom of a much deeper problem, the latest manifestation of the unaddressed frustrations with the century-old overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom

efusal of farmers and other tenants to leave Waiahole-Waikane despite plans for a big 7,000-unit development in the Windward Oahu valley.

Activists George Helm and Kimo Mitchell disappeared while traveling between Kahoolawe and Maui.

arrested for illegally trespassing on Kahoolawe

simulated an atomic bomb explosion there

Instead, the end of the document simply states, “Nothing in this Joint Resolution is intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States.”8

formally apologize for America’s illegal overthrow

each group is divided by their proposed solutions of reconciliation with America.

1985, only 32 individuals on the island of Ni’ihau could speak the language fluently, when just a little over 200 years earlier, Hawaiian was the only language known and spoken by Hawaiian natives.

Though Great Britain, France, and the United States each signed documents that validated Hawaii’s independence, each country’s high taxes on Hawaii, Hawaii’s ever-decreasing population, and the increase of foreign settlers weakened the Hawaiian monarchy.

many natives who lived by tradition were unaware that they legally possessed land until they received compensation from its purchase by foreigners.4

This act established a legal system of land ownership, gave Native Hawaiians claim to the land they lived on, and legalized the purchase of those lands by foreigners.

King Kamehameha I installed the ahupua’a system

Though Hawaii was known to be an independent monarchy, colonizing nations such as England, France, and the United States soon started to deploy warships and assign government officials to obtain control and create a “civilized” nation, which, to these Western powers, defined true sovereignty.

faith in Hawaiian mythological gods inspired them to achieve highly developed agricultural and aquacultural systems, advanced celestial navigation and seafaring technology, and architecture