Churches' suit against Hawaii civil unions law = "premature adjudication"

...according to the U.S. District Court's Order Denying Temporary Restraining Order in Emmanuel Temple, et al. v. Abercrombie et al.

Courthouse News has a piece with links to a plaintiffs' brief and to the order.

Two Christian churches lack legal standing to prevent same-sex couples from benefitting under Hawaii's new civil union law, a federal judge ruled.

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Emmanuel Temple, the House of Praise; its pastor, Carl E. Harris; Lighthouse Outreach Center Assembly of God; and its pastor, Joel Hunkin, had claimed that they needed a restraining order and injunction "to maintain their 1st, 5th and 14th Amendment rights, without being subjected to injunctions, fines and other penalties for refusing to rent their church grounds for same-sex ceremonies and receptions."

[The Order states that] a "general intent to violate a statute at some unknown date in the future does not rise to the level of an articulated, concrete plan."

"A couple would have to ask, they would have to be denied, and they would then have to file suit"[.]

Here's a link to Act 1, recognizing civil unions in Hawaii.