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The party that favors passing a Constitutional amendment that would explicitly withdraw rights from a group of people for the first time in American history now has a stranglehold on "moral values."
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Don't mean to get on semantics here, but that has nothing to do with the seperation of Church and State. It's wrong, yes, but it is not related to the first amendment. The first amendment states simply that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Banning gay marriage is not directed at any particular religion - there are gay Catholics, Jews, Lutherans, Buddhists, Atheists, Muslims, Satanists, and whatever else. If most people in the country are Mormon and think that drinking caffeine is wrong and they ban the drinking of caffeine, it is not a law stating people in America must be Mormon, but simply a law that reflects the wishes of a majority of Americans. It is not a persecution of your religion, but the side-effect of holding minority beliefs. It is no different than most people in America believing that drugs are wrong. I believe that a person should be able to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home, so long as it's done responsibly. I don't think drugs should be any different from the way we treat alcohol. However, I have a roommate who believes that people who do drugs are typically bad people and immoral. Many people in America agree with him, thus, it is illegal. This is not his morality being pushed on me. This is the price I pay for having a minority opinion, and if I want to change it I need to work to convince other people that my minority opinion is right.