Reply #69: What's missing in this?

[Baby Snooks]

He avoids the real issue. Equality under the law. Dignity and respect is not the same as equality under the law. Which even the 5th Circuit Court has said is guaranteed to all citizens, with no exceptions, under the 14th Amendment. Something Barack Obama apparently doesn't realize.

This is the one thing I have a problem with although quite honestly the same "pandering" to the fundamentlists is not restricted to Barack Obama. All the candidates seem to be avoiding the issue. Covering it up with catchphrases like "dignity and respect."

The message is still to treat them with dignity and respect by not asking but if you do and they tell, well, they shouldn't have because if they are fired or denied housing or denied protections and rights under the law, well, again, they shouldn't have told.

That is not what the 5th Circuit Court ruled not that long ago. And the 5th Circuit Court is one of the most conservative courts in the country.

What I really have a problem with is that by pandering as they are, politicians are furthering the belief by the fundamentalists that this country was founded as a "Christian" nation and so religious law is superior to the civil law.

That is not what the Constitution says.

Reality is "dignity and respect" is also demeaning. And offensive.