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  • New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex.

    Dog   Sex   Gay  
    Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale
  • If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility — just as they can be required to exercise responsibility in their resource-consumption patterns — providing they are not denied equal protection

  • The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong."

    Gay   Issues   Rights  
    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their own, nor can they vindicate equal-protection rights of their citizens. The same is true about being able to challenge alleged religious discrimination. This limitation on the states' authority to champion such claims is fundamental to our separation-of-powers architecture.

    "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.
  • Lately the First Amendment has been interpreted to deny equal protection of the law to those who believe in God. The Constitution established freedom for religion, not freedom from religion!

  • The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

  • NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

    Law   Justice   Sides  
    "‘NOH8 on the Hill III’ Draws Support From 67 Members of Congress" by Laurence Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.
  • What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

    Dream   Opportunity   Law  
  • My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

    Strong   Names   Iron  
    Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.231, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
  • Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

    Sex   Pride   Gay  
    "The Obama Brief" By Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.
  • All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

    Rights   Citizens   Birth  
  • It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.

    "Obama: Axelrod 'mixing up' gay marriage stance" By Jeremy Diamond, Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2015.
  • The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

    Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”
  • Laws that require equal protections reinforce the moral imperative of equality.

    Law   Lgbt   Moral  
    International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
  • What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

    Couple   Powerful   Mean  
  • Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

  • There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause

    "What Clause? Where?" by Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. October 20, 2005.
  • We recognize that same-sex marriage makes some people deeply uncomfortable. However, inertia and apprehension are not legitimate bases for denying same-sex couples due process and equal protection of the laws. Civil marriage is one of the cornerstones of our way of life. It allows individuals to celebrate and publicly declare their intentions to form lifelong partnerships, which provide unparalleled intimacy, companionship, emotional support and security.

    Sex   Couple   Gay  
    "Reviewing The 4 Gay Marriage Cases The High Court Tacitly Endorsed" by Eyder Peralta, www.npr.org. October 6, 2014.
  • Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law. The States are charged with punishing all such invasions as the common rights of the citizens, but some of them have failed in their effort to do so, and others have not honestly tried. Meanwhile, lynchings continue, and though they do not increase in number, they show some tendency to increase in savagery.

    Rights   Lynching   Law  
  • All marriages are same sex marriages. You get married and every night, it's the same sex.

    Funny   Sex   Humorous  
    Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale
  • As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.

    "Michigan's ban on affirmative action upheld by Supreme Court" By Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2014.
  • When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we’re under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

    Sacrifice   Gay   Law  
    "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.
  • The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

    Mean   Equality   Color  
  • The power granted the Attorney General to intervene in all equal-protection-of-the-law cases is extremely broad and dangerous. Choices made by the Attorney General could follow a political and selected pattern.

  • There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral but produce substantial discriminatory impacts on groups of people, based on such suspect classifications as race, nationality, ethnic origin, etc. This doctrine has never been used in foreign affairs.

    Unique   Impact   Race  
    "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?" by David B. Rivkin Jr., Karen Tumlin and James Downie, davidbrivkin.com. February 6, 2017.
  • There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

    Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832
  • History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

  • When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

    "Interview with Senator Arnold Specter". Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 3, 2009.
  • We must have our freedom now. We must have the right to vote. We must have equal protection of the law.

    Law   Vote   Protection  
  • All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
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