[tedivm]

The 14th amendment is pretty open when it comes to granting freedom and not allowing discrimination.

> 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.

[Redoubts]

And the weird part is the courts wrote out "shall [not] abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States" but then wrote in "[substantive] due process of law" when they realized they stuffed up.

But the whole thing should have been scrapped after the civil war anyways. So much of the document, and the drawing up of states themselves, was done to balance slave-power -- something remarkably unimportant after 1865.

[nemo44x]

“Equal protection” has been subverted time and time again with the argument that making exceptions for an arbitrary demographic doesn’t take anything away from everyone else. Of course that is blind to the fact just about everything is a finite resource and that special privilege is in fact depriving people of life, liberty, and property.