Have we learned nothing since Thomas More?

I've been watching the news from Honolulu as the Hawai'i legislature debates SB-1, the proposed marriage equality bill.

See, for example, streaming video from the House and Senate.

It's fascinating watching the testimony from the anti-Gay side. The seem incapable of separating religious from secular reasons to support their position. I am always reminded of Robert Bolt's comments in "A Man for All Seasons", arguing with his son-in-law about how to root out "evil".

Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man's laws, not God's– and if you cut them down—and you're just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.