-Courtney Orsinelli
Monday, October 13, 2008
A word from Courtney:
Gay marriage isn’t a gay issue. It’s a civil rights issues. It’s on the same plane as black suffrage and woman’s rights. Their basic principle is the same. And it was deliniated in our constitution as far back as 1868, in the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.No state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws… deny state power to legislate that different treatment be accorded to persons placed by a statute into different classes on the basis of criteria wholly unrelated to the object of that statute.. so that all persons similarly circumstance shall be treated alike.Here’s the first and the last of it: ALL rights and privileges afforded by the government CAN NOT (by this principle set forth in our constitution) discriminate on the basis of race, gender or SEXUAL ORIENTATION (thus, including marriage).
-Courtney Orsinelli
-Courtney Orsinelli
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As quoted from the blog entry, "A word from Courtney:"
"...deny state power to legislate that different treatment be accorded to persons placed by a statute into different classes on the basis of criteria wholly unrelated to the object of that statute.."
This statement appears to be a slight misconstruction. The first section ("Equal Protection Clause") of the 14th amendment reads in full, as follows.
14th Amendment; Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Copy-pasted directly from http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/
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