The Interfaith Alliance Hawai‘i is made up of clergy and lay-leaders representing more than 30 faith-based traditions. Some of our religious institutions perform and recognize marriages for same gender loving couples by officially blessing these unions, while others do so as individuals. Some find it contrary to their beliefs or teachings to perform marriages outside of an opposite-gender paradigm. We find our diversity to be a source of strength.

We firmly believe that the state and federal governments have no place in defining the sanctity of some traditions to the exclusion of others, as pertaining to our diverse practices of marriage. For religious institutions, marriage is deeply rooted in the rites of passage and pastoral care according to the moral and ethical teachings of those traditions.

We affirm the human dignity and worth of all people, thus we support civil liberties and religious liberties, regardless of affectional orientation and gender identity or expression. We also affirm that civil marriages for same gender-loving couples performed by the state do not endanger any of our religious traditions.