The anger and accusations – which fly in both directions – are a far cry from the vision for Botton laid out by its founder, an Austrian refugee who created the community's prototype in Scotland in 1939, based on the be-nice-to-each-other-we're-all-equal principles of philosopher Rudolf Steiner.
The anger and accusations which fly in both directions are a far cry from the vision for Botton laid out by its founder, an Austrian refugee who created the community's prototype in Scotland in 1939, based on the be-nice-to-each-other-we're-all-equal principles of philosopher Rudolf Steiner.
That distinction, the court could rule, violates equal protection principles.
Mr. Flores-Villar argued that the differing treatments violated equal protection principles.
The church argues that the State Constitution violates equal protection principles and the First Amendment's guarantee of free exercise of religion.
In ordinary cases, courts considering whether a federal law violates equal protection principles merely ask whether the law can be justified by a rational reason.
"Interpreting our state constitutional provisions in accordance with firmly established equal protection principles leads inevitably to the conclusion that gay persons are entitled to marry the otherwise qualified same-sex partner of their choice," Justice Palmer declared.
Public-law concerns have pervaded almost every area of the civil law: equal treatment principles, for example, have completely transformed the previously patriarchal family-law provisions of civil codes everywhere.
