Equal Protection Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John Sparkman

  Choices Made, Law, Political

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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.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Sex, Gay

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale

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• 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.

  Henry Franklin Floyd

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Reviewing The 4 Gay Marriage Cases The High Court Tacitly Endorsed" by Eyder Peralta, www.npr.org. October 6, 2014.

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• 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.

  Xavier Becerra

  Law, Justice, Sides

  "‘NOH8 on the Hill III’ Draws Support From 67 Members of Congress" by Laurence Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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

  Michael Kinsley

  Fifth Amendment, Protection, Amendments

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• 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.

  Evan Wolfson

  Couple, Powerful, Mean

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• 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.

  David B. Rivkin

  Religious, Rights, Champion

  "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.

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• Gay and lesbian people are equal. They deserve equal protection of the laws, and they deserve it now.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Gay, Law, People

  "If SCOTUS Decides in Favor of Marriage Equality, Thank Solicitor General Don Verrilli" by Mark Joseph Stern, www.slate.com. April 29, 2015.

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

  James McGreevey

  Unions, Sacred, Protection

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• 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."

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Issues, Rights

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Lynching, Law

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• Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature - equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Opportunity, Government, Law

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016). “My Own Words”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

  Warren Farrell

  Special, Guarantees, Constitution

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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