What a silly premise that we WORSHIP Mary....we don’t...we revere her and honor her. We can pray before any statue of any saint, we don’t adore them either. Silly.
When a person kneels before a statue of anything be it a saint or a king , that person is practicing a form of adoration. In my post I said that the kind of veneration the Catholic church accords to Mary, the mother of Jesus, is AKIN to worship which means that it is like worship. However, that being said, you cannot tell me that thousands of old Italian ladies as well as my Greek grandmother did not worship her. They did! They prayed specifically to her for intercession which is unbiblical and kept statues and icons of her surrounded by candles in private family altars. I am sorry but whether you admit it or not, these are the hallmarks of worship. Protestants ought to love those clouds of witnesses that have come before including Mary who was indeed blessed by being chosen by God to be the mother of Christ, but we do not kneel down to them