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At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people, in the 20th century, more broader questions were litigated under the 14th Amendment, like Brown v. Board of Education -- whether segregation was constitutional. Cases involving the internment of Japanese citizens, case from the marriage equality decisions, even Roe vs. Wade have strains of equal protection language and invoke due process law.

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Governments must draw up and enforce policies that end child marriage, and create alternatives for girls and their families, if governments and civil society organizations don't act now, the number of women married in childhood will increase from more than 700 million today to 1.2 billion by 2050.

– Lakshmi SundaramRate it:

I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient, i was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.

– Barack ObamaRate it:

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it’s clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do,” Ken Mehlman said in an interview. “By contrast, opposing equal rights is a net negative that gets problematic to more voters each year.”

– Ken MehlmanRate it:

That's not the same thing, because here you're talking about the definition of an institution, not the value of a single human being. That's the difference between the civil rights movement and the marriage equality movement.

– Marco RubioRate it:

To try to act as if there is a difference between' civil unions' and same-sex marriage is dishonest, cowardly and extremely disrespectful to the people of Straight Hawaii, as Democrats we should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists.

– Tulsi GabbardRate it:

We are here more than anything for a symbolic marriage, it is like a protest to the Peruvian state because it is really time for the country to have a civil union marriage which we, as Peruvians, really deserve and have the right to receive.

– Juan Carlos MartinezRate it:

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