>mmmm...I don't think that's what they're elected to do at all. You shouldn't have an opinion about something, then turn it into the law. For example...emperor Bush wants a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. He says "In the eyes of God, marriage is between a man a woman."....ummmmm well ok. I mean ok if you belive in God (or as I see it - suffer from mass delusion)... and belive in this particilar God...etc etc etc. In other words - wether or not you think same-sex marriage is right or wrong is your OPINION. The thing is you dont make your OPINION a freakn constitutional amendment! Hey I don't dig the idea of male-male marriages either (eeewwww) - but hey it's just my opinion - I aint gonna jump up and down about it and wine and moan till I get the government to turn my opinion into the law. Now if this was a law that was strictly allowing female-female marriage, hey now I'm all for that! But again...it's just my opinion. Hey if emperor Bush wants to make is
>bible-thumping opinions the law...then what about all the other stuff in this book? Like can I have slaves, kill people for working on Sundays, and whoohoo someone commited blaspheme - looks like we getta stone them to death! arrrrggghhh!

Although I do believe in God, I also see this tendency as worrying - perhaps frightening. We have seen in other countries what can happen when a government turns their opinion into law - some things that have happened is that centuries-old monuments were destroyed, practically all rights were taken from women, and anybody who had the "wrong" faith (for example, Bahá'ís in Irán) risked to be executed on fabricated or irrelevant charges.