To the national "values driven" voters, from a Massachusetts liberal: Keep your filthy, grasping bureaucratic hands off of my Church!
How dare you claim that you are "protecting state rights" or "protecting the sanctity" of anything when you legislate religious belief? Do you really think that defining marriage in the (state/federal) constitution is going to be the end of it? Would it have been a-okay for a President Kerry (should he have been elected) to write up Catholic Executive Orders? Mandate latin services? You like to talk about having a "personal relationship with Jesus?" How is that going to work with the feds are the middlemen?
"No no," you say, "that's not what I mean at all!" But that is exactly what you want to do to me, yourself and the rest of the country!
I don't care one whit if I agree or not with the sentiment behind your proposed "amendments" - if your law is telling me what/how to believe/worship/practice/pray then it has absolutely no business being law! THIS MEANS YOU!
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