If Justice for All means anything, it should mean that the
law should treat everyone equally and should not favor or punish a group of
people for things that are beyond their reasonable control.
In the last century, our country has made impressive
progress towards equality based on gender, race, national origin, religion and
disability. Before yesterday, however, federal law openly, blatantly and
intentionally discriminated against millions of Americans based solely on their
sexual orientation.Yesterday’s Supreme Court rulings will stop a good deal of that discrimination. And while we still have a long way to go to reach equality on all of the numerous forms of our historic discrimination, I’m excited that our Supreme Court had the wisdom and courage to bring us one step closer to truly having Justice for All.
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