The Latz word on same sex marriage.

This was some of the best and wisest things said during the debate. Latz was superb.



and also these words by Latz were pivotal to what the right has tried to do, an attempt that is despicable and shameful. What the right, particularly the religious right, appears to want to do is to claim their belief allows them to treat people differently, badly, even abusively. It is being used here to try to deny them equality and the benefits of marriage; it is used in arguing against anti-bullying legislation to claim that it is their right to haze and harass kids, telling them they are inferior, that they are diseased, that they are an abomination, and that they are going to hell. This is the use of religion NOT for personal belief, but to attack the beliefs or existence of people who are different from the white religious extremists for DARING not to conform to right wing ideas and belief. That is not liberty, it is not democracy, it is the tyranny of the worst form of Theocracy. It is different only mildly in degree and not at all in kind from the religious police in some of the more repressive Muslim countries; it is the Christian equivalent of a less DIRECTLY violent but equally intolerant version of the Taliban here in the US.




I was very moved by these words from Sen. Reinart. I think they summed up the reasons for this legislation.