They have the inside track on God, don't you know?

The GOP consultant who rallied evangelical Christians to support Proposition 73, the parental notification measure for abortion, said Wednesday that the initiative's near miss was a sign that California was ready for more religious involvement in politics.

While out of one side of their mouths, the Republican leaders talk about wanting judges who are "strict constructionists" who adhere to the "original intentions" codified in the Constitution, out of the other side of their mouths come their agenda to destroy what's perhaps the most important Constitutional principle laid down by the Founders: separation of Church and State.

Not satisfied or secure enough in their own faith, they seek governmental enforcement of their religious views on everyone else -- the very kind of thing that people fled to America from Europe to avoid.

Marx, a Virginia consultant who worked on President Bush's campaign last year reaching out to evangelicals, said that energy could be focused next on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Such an amendment would strengthen the state's definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, which became law -- but not part of the Constitution -- when voters approved Prop. 22 in 2000.

"People saw that (evangelicals) are a great, untapped area," said Marx, who the California Republican Party brought in two months ago to reach out to evangelicals. "The ground is paved for a similar type of effort on a marriage amendment."

Such anxiety from these folks!

The narrowness of Prop. 73's loss was a bright spot for Peter Henderson, who chairs the steering committee for ProtectMarriage.com and supported the measure.

Henderson's group is trying to qualify a constitutional amendment for next year's ballot that would say marriage "between a man and a woman is the only legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state."

It seems to me that if these people are so afraid they're going to turn gay unless there are strong laws against it, maybe they should just seek out therapy and find more constructive ways to alleviate the stress of their homophobia.

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