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We want to acknowledge that the challenges that Lambda Legal faces are real, and we have been and will continue to be hard at work addressing them. In the last two years, we had a change in leadership, created a DC office, made necessary but painful changes to employee benefits, saw the creation of an employee union, and we had more staff turnover than we would like.

“Courts across the country have swatted down implementation of this dangerous and discriminatory ban: There is no defensible reason to resurrect it now.”

“While profoundly frustrated and outraged, we are not surprised by this outcome, which is yet another example of the lengths to which this Republican-controlled Senate is prepared to go in order to pack the courts with ideological extremists who will promote the ‘values’ of the Trump-Pence administration.”

“The Court affirmed that marriage is marriage, with all the rights and responsibilities that come with it. A child does not have fewer rights than other children simply because he has same-sex parents.”

(Honolulu, HI, October 5, 2018) – The Supreme Court of Hawai‘i yesterday affirmed a lower court ruling that, just like other spouses, same-sex spouses must be treated as the presumed parents of children born during their marriage, with equal rights and equal responsibilities, including legal parentage and child support.