PRE-CISELY. And that is *exactly* what we demand for Our Lady. Not to be adored as an uncreated Divinity, but to be honored with "hyperdulia" as the most blessed among women because it was in her AND (as people seem to forget) through her totally obedient will and permission that Christ came into the world.
Our argument is solely this--that we all owe Mary "under the aegis of the Almighty" a certain amount of appropriate and condign love because she willingly brought the Christ Child into the world. That love is most certainly not expressed by those who impiously regard the Holy God-bearer with little more affection than if she were a disposable Tupperware container.
You may well think our affection for Our Lady as exaggerated. You won't be the first. But to go the other extreme and say that she does not deserve *any* higher praise than, say St. Peter, is nonsense and easily refuted by the smallest glimpse throughout Christian history. Christian history, I might point out, *including* Luther and Calvin.
Luke 11:27-28, As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
If the Lord thought we should pay his mother any special consideration this would have been a good time to let us know.