"It is clearly typical of SOME of them, but not all."
Well of course, it would be a rare group where every individual thought exactly the same. However, if you were given just the legislation and then asked to guess which party was involved and which area of the country, I doubt you'd guess Democrat, Connecticut. This is the kind of overbearing, religiously uptight, intolerant, horseshit, that could only come from the southern right.
BSB