That is the difference between Western cultures and indigenous cultures elsewhere like those of the Americas and the Pacific.  
While Ben Todd sees a man-made structure as a glorious "cathedral" to humanity, indigenous peoples know that the true cathedral to humanity is the very land humanity manages, in this case Mauna a Wakea.  
Humanity neither respects nor worships what it desecrates.
Further to that, he states in part " maybe we can at least agree that it is not an egregious affront to Hawaiian culture " .  Words like maybe, may, might, perhaps, possibly, etc mean that he does not actually know, that he is just guessing.  Thus, as I stated above, we will NOT agree, because those in the Western mindset are sadly bent on insisting that their view of the world is the only right one, the only one that should be considered, the one that carries the most weight, regardless of the fact that they sit on another's ancestral land making such statements. 
Wrong.