Think Gay rights don't concern you? Think again.

[BlaqueKatt]

Story here

Seems Citizens United is so dead set against giving gay people the right to marry, they've filed a suit to reinstate/defend DOMA. This is not the bad part yet, the bad part:

It is past time for this Court to bring to an end the line of atextual cases begun with Bolling v. Sharpe in 1954, and to place itself back under the authority of the Constitution as it is written.
The "atextual case" Citizens United is referencing, Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. 497 (1954), is a landmark desegregation case that was decided on the same day as its famous cousin, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).

The Court ruled that "racial segregation in the public schools of the District of Columbia is a denial to Negro children of the due process of law guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment," according to Cornell Law School, concluding that while "the Fifth Amendment does not contain an equal protection clause, as does the Fourteenth Amendment, which applies only to the States, the concepts of equal protection and due process are not mutually exclusive."

Citizens United claims that this decision was wrong, Think Progress' Ian Millhiser reports. The Constitution's Fifth Amendment includes no guarantee against discrimination -- for racial minorities in the public school system, or for gays and lesbians attempting to get married.

Yes, they're that fanatical, that they want to repeal civil rights for everyone save for Christian white males.

I just don't even....no words.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

...I... I think my brain is trying to rip itself out of my skull in a desperate attempt to get away from the sheer ignorance and arrogance that is being displayed right now. Holy crap.

[BlaqueKatt]

...I... I think my brain is trying to rip itself out of my skull in a desperate attempt to get away

Mine's curled up in a dark corner weeping, it'll gladly share it's blankie with yours.

[Nekojin]

Thankfully, most of our current Supremes are wholly in favor of equal protection under the law, and won't even give CU the time of day for this idiotic claim. The Fifth's Due Process clause sufficiently covers anti-discrimination under any rational reading. The 14th Amendment's own Due Process clause makes it a slam-dunk, since between them, they cover both State and Federal issues.

[HYHYBT]

I hope the justices read that... and I wish the House defenders would try to make it the center of their case.

[Seifer]

Sorry Citizens United, but the Constitution does not give you the right to step on the rights of others. Any rights you have also belong to every other citizen in this country.

[Pixilated]

I've seen something posted on FB about this same thing ... basically saying, so you think states should have the right to determine civil liberties ... ? With a photo reading "Drinking Fountain" and with two arrows below those words -- one pointing to the "White" drinking fountain and the other to the "Black" fountain.

It's really hard to believe there are still people out there who want to go back to those "good old days."

[Rapscallion]

It's really hard to believe there are still people out there who want to go back to those "good old days."

Of course they do - they earned their position by ... er, being born to a different coloured parent. Makes all the difference, see?

I don't see it myself, but they earned it, damnit.

Rapscallion