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**Diandaplaipsy** · 01-07-2011, 08:42 PM

Just responding to the topic head. It is obvious that the Constitution does not protect women or for that matter men from discrimination based on gender. This at one time was even known by libs who tried for decades to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (look it up). The Government discriminates against men everyday only men and not women can be denied citizenship and can be denied federal school loans if they fail to register with the Selective Service. The questions is why has our school system so massively failed in teaching this basic idea that a Supreme Court justice has to explain what should be obvious to every fourth-grader.

Will somebody please tell Incident that there's a View Post button so he can read the article without taking me off ignore?

Actually, the Constitution does guarantee equal rights to women. It doesn't have to explicitly say anything about gender to do that. The actual text of the 14th amendment:

"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." It doesn't give any explicit reasons why the state cannot abridge someone's rights. It just says the state cannot do it--period, for any reason. That implies that a woman's rights under the law cannot be abridged because of sex.

01-07-2011, 08:42 PM	#5
Diandaplaipsy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	Just responding to the topic head. It is obvious that the Constitution does not protect women or for that matter men from discrimination based on gender. This at one time was even known by libs who tried for decades to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (look it up). The Government discriminates against men everyday only men and not women can be denied citizenship and can be denied federal school loans if they fail to register with the Selective Service. The questions is why has our school system so massively failed in teaching this basic idea that a Supreme Court justice has to explain what should be obvious to every fourth-grader. Will somebody please tell Incident that there's a View Post button so he can read the article without taking me off ignore? Actually, the Constitution does guarantee equal rights to women. It doesn't have to explicitly say anything about gender to do that. The actual text of the 14th amendment: "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." It doesn't give any explicit reasons why the state cannot abridge someone's rights. It just says the state cannot do it--period, for any reason. That implies that a woman's rights under the law cannot be abridged because of sex.
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