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Democrats are promoting the inappropriateness of Congress' attention to this case. Democrats are questioning the judgement of a powerful, law-making man who makes significant medical diagnoses from a distance. Democrats are agruing for an appropriate mutual respect of church and state, and well as their separation in legislative government. Democats are advocating for the individual civil rights which 20 courts have now affirmed are squarely and properly in the hands of Terri's spouse. This last one really gets under my skin -- the party with the steady moan about "defending marriage" (in all 50 states and Congress) casually and conveniently rips and tears at the marriage of Michael and Terri, clearly viewing it as inconsequntial or flawed, as if that could ever be their right to judge.
I don't know Barney Frank's remarks at all. I can't see at all how anyone's sexual orientation could play a role here -- it's irrelevant to any argument I see.
I enjoy seeing that the American populace disapproves of Congress' intervention. If there is a price to pay for the issue, the Christian right certainly hasn't had to pay it yet. If anything, their power to pass midnight federal legislation is breathtaking in and of itself. There isn't a winner here.

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