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lisper on June 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules

Who is waving the democracy flag? Certainly not me. I'm waving the fourteenth-amendment equal-protection flag. The United States isn't a (pure) democracy. Never has been, never will be. Thank goodness.

aaronem on June 26, 2015 [–]

You're actually waving the tyranny-of-the-majority flag, in favor of equal protection for minorities. I'm not even honestly sure what to call that.

lisper on June 26, 2015 | [–]

Call it what you like. I'll call it the Equal Protection Clause of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

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