So even where gay couples enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage under state law, they do not enjoy equality under federal law.
The Founding Fathers took on their criticism and strove to balance liberty with equality under the law.
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" But the Bible's prescription of equality means equality under the law, as in Deuteronomy's saying that "Judges and officers .
The Justice Department remains committed to equality under the law and will continue to be central to that effort over the years to come.
We are the party of equality under the law, of the 14th Amendment as written, and of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as written.
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Then too, while Israeli women enjoy full equality under the law, women and girls in the Arab and Muslim world are systematically subjugated and enslaved.
Perhaps there should be a right to equality under the law.
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"But we can -- and will -- speak out for a set of core principles" including freedom of religion and expression, and equality under the law, he promised.
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But since the likelihood of this is just above 0%, this state-constructed distinction (marriage) should be available equally (equality under the law), regardless of genetic makeup (genetically gay or heterosexual).
This compilation of archival footage, shot by Swedish documentarians, presents a gallery of young black American leaders who sought, in lieu of mere formal equality under the law, a full participation in and radical transformation of American society.
One hundred years later, Americans from all corners of the country, representing every race and religion, came together under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to peacefully march through the streets of our capital and call for equality under the law for all citizens.
The challenge is how to tax and regulate the economy in such way as to ensure unequal economic outcomes provide the public revenue to invest in instruments of social justice, namely equality under the law, world class public education, the science of good health available to all citizens, and best in class public transportation.
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