House GOP To Supreme Court: Gay People Are Too Powerful To Get Equal Rights

House GOP To Supreme Court: Gay People Are Too Powerful To Get Equal Rights: pFor nearly two years, House Republicans paid conservative superlawyer Paul Clement $520 an hour to defend the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act in federal court — and then sent the bill to the American taxpayer. In total Clement has now cost the American people up to $3 million for his efforts on behalf of this [...]/p

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Toney comments: Republicans mislead us when they believe in the words of documents written by our founding fathers in establishing the United States of America. They seem to pooh-pooh the concept that "all men are created equal." (A progressive gay acquainance told me with a smile, "That's definitely not true.") But I digress, returning instead to the reality of what our forefathers said and to what many Americans give lip service but don't put into practice:
 
From Wikipedia: The opening of the United States Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, states as follows:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.