An important building block in the argument that orchestras are moving naturally towards equality is the fact that, by and large, the gender split in youth orchestras is already 50 50 and this can be taken to signify that the gender balance of major orchestras will inevitably even out in the future.
The friend works in an environment which might be thought naturally friendly to equality issues: BBC, north London, young people – all liberally inclined cultures.
Chief Justice Roberts asked -- incredulously -- if the 84 senators who voted for DOMA could really have been "motivated by animus?" Opponents of marriage equality naturally resent being called bigots for holding a position that, until recently, the vast majority of humans pretty much took for granted -- that marriage was an opposite-sex union.
History took a giant step forward in June with the Supreme Court's watershed rulings on marriage equality, and naturally it will take artists, even those notoriously quick-off-the-mark filmmakers, a bit of time to transform such momentous news into meditative reflection.
It is obvious that our daughters and granddaughters simply cannot wait for equality to evolve naturally.
Drawing upon the natural law tradition, Locke argues that it is evident to our natural reason that we are all absolutely subject to our Lord and Creator, but that, in relation to each other, we exist naturally in a state of equality "wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another" (Second Treatise, §4).
Democratic plans and explanations for moving America forward naturally build on values like equality, fairness, and opportunity.
It will naturally want to entrench and advance equality for gay people which, to their credit, the Labour government can claim as one of their achievements.
For millennials, supporting their communities comes naturally as they focus fiercely on equality, outreach and service — they've even outpaced seniors when it comes to doing good in their communities.
Naturally it follows that this vision of equality is also a vision of material equality, which calls the humble sage to participate in the struggle against injustice, oppression, and persecution which scars the bodies of the marginalized and the body of the Earth herself.
Thus, 35 years ago, when he compiled "Equality of Educational Opportunity," Coleman naturally measured the resources that were easy to measure and that were commonly assumed to matter -- physics labs, academic curricula, teacher qualifications and so forth.
