There was a referendum on the ballot here in Tennessee during the 2006 election to amend the state constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman, and voters approved the referendum by a whopping 81 percent in favor, 19 percent opposed. (I'm one of the 19 percent, fwiw.) I have an exceedlingly hard time believing that religion had nothing to do with its passage--we're a red state, but we're not that red, which leads me to believe that even otherwise liberal Democrats voted in favor of it, and the only reason I can think of why that would happen is because we're in the heart of the Babble Belt.
But of course we're told, no, religion had almost nothing to do with these referendums getting passed. And Obama decided to support gay marriage because of religion, so yay, churches! Oh, and apparently the people who voted for them weren't True Christians™, or we mere mortals simply can't comprehend other ways of voting. 
And don't even get me started on the "Monkey Bill" that just got passed. 
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