Each year about this time I’m puzzled by the fact that Good Friday is an official state holiday in Hawaii. It’s a Christian religious holiday, not relevant to the many other religions and nonbelievers here. It’s a remnant of missionary times and colonization. The separation of church and state is ignored.

Another holiday, preferably an Hawaiian one, ought to be substituted.

Paul Davis

Nuuanu

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