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Originally Posted by Itse;3703622
Although to be fair;
Considering that the bigots want to pick and choose which parts of their holy book they adhere to, it would only make sense that they would pick and choose which parts of the other US "holy scripture" they would adhere to.
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No matter how clearly "the founding fathers" stated it, separation of church and state is constantly too difficult of a concept.[/B]
This is (yet again) quite obviously a case where all people of a state are forced by law to follow certain religious doctrines. Their popularity should not be an excuse.
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This is actually a common misconception of what the Constitution says, and what the founding fathers intended. The separation of church and state was never about the removal of religion from decision making, heck the word god is all over related documents, it's about a prohibition on the establishment of a state religion and the imposition of laws that advance a particular religion or discriminate against a particular religion. The fact that a law may have been inspired by religious beliefs doesn't violate this concept on it's own, you need to go beyond that to get into a Constitutional violation.
This is more of an equal protection clause situation, which is the likely grounds upon which an eventual Supreme Court case will be raised. The interesting element of that is how you shape it to be a Federal issue, as right now it's a matter that is more in the realm of the particular states.