Losing our freedom to discriminate

To no one's surprise, there is an awful lot of resentment against the bill introduced in Maine to end discrimination against same-sex marriage. For example, a bishop calls gay marriage dangerous, Pat Robertson (televangelist) claims it leads to bestiality and pedophilia, and at Pro-Polygamy.com (eh?) they say the bill in fact discriminates against polygamists (I can just imagine two straight couples deciding to get married all to each other).

In today's Kennebec Journal, there is a (largely insignificant, I know) letter by one Angela Fletcher, Same-sex marriage like Darwin's evolution theory, which is so arrestingly inane that I feel i must display it here in its entirety, with my comments in red:

Even if the governor signs the bill to make same-sex marriages legal in Maine, I will no more let my children or my future grandchildren [why stop there?] believe [are people told what to believe?] that it is OK for same-sex couples to marry, than I did before it becomes a law. This idea of marriage is no more acceptable to me than Darwin's Theory of Evolution. [And you have just labeled yourself as a conservative Christian bigot.]

It is my right to teach my family my religious beliefs without being discriminated against. [Is anyone saying anything else? Or is it the homeschooled peasant's way of interpreting this bill?] That is exactly what would be happening in the public schools -- No thank you. [Your personal beliefs are not discriminated against with this bill - it is you who think that your beliefs entitle you to discriminate against others.]

The demoralization of our great country can be blamed on the fact that our forefathers separated religion from state. [What demoralization? Some people are demoralized by the sexual acts that they get off on picturing others having in private, and others are demoralized by the discrimination against people who want the same rights as you (e.g. health care and inheritance rights).]

It seems to me that those of us of religious descent [no one is of 'religious descent' - being religious is a choice, or?] are losing more and more of our religious freedoms. [Which? Those freedoms to discriminate against others?] Little by little, from state to state, our country's morals are deteriorating. [Or, again, improviong, depending on your level of bigotry.] Why is murder still wrong? [Because it doesn't happen between consenting adults?] Oops, I forgot it's legal in some states, but that's a whole different ballgame. [Hear hear! Too many states still have the death-penalty, and those will have to change. Otherwise, I have no idea what you are referring to.]