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Politics : Have you read your constitution today?

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From: Thomas M.	1/4/2011 12:26:07 PM
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I have never studied law or the Constitution, but I don't see how anyone can rationally argue with Scalia here. The clause doesn't have any ambiguity. It only addresses government behavior, not private behavior. Tom <<< Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in a recently published interview that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment does not prohibit discrimination based on gender or sexual orientation. "Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex," Scalia told California Lawyer. "The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. Nobody ever thought that that's what it meant. Nobody ever voted for that. If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex, hey we have things called legislatures, and they enact things called laws." The equal protection clause states: "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." >>> news.yahoo.com

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