NJ State Senator S. Sweeney, who takes up an important Democratic leadership role in the new session, either made a cold calculation with his abstention on gay marriage or was left dithering on how to cast a vote.
The message that civil marriage is not a sacrament didn't get through. He's saying, now, he'd vote for it.
Of course, faith can shape and inform policy. However, evidence, doubt, and cost-benefit are the things that we use to come together appropriately in a civil society, to find ways to accommodate each other, when some is clearly owing. This is not hard to understand.
There have to be prominent people who can articulate that, to get the message some critical mass, because it is a lost language, so it seems.
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