Kudos to Andrew Walden of Hawaii Free Press for this post on recent remarks by Christian conservative Duke Aiona, who says he hasn’t decided whether to run for governor in 2014.

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We have civil unions, we will soon have gambling, we will have assisted suicide, we will have the legalization of marijuana, we will soon have all of these, I guess they call them progressive bills. We will have all of that in front of us unless we stay unified as best as we can ….

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