"The modern Islamic state should uphold equality," Abdullah says.
The commission is meant to uphold equality laws covering gender, disabilities, age, sexual orientation and race.
That decision will probably reach the Supreme Court, and, when it does, we expect Mr. Obama, if he is still president, will take the final step in his evolutionary process and direct the Justice Department to support that ruling and urge the court to uphold equality in every state.
But, as the high court's judgment pointed out in relation to section 377, this has meant violating the egalitarian ethos of independent India's constitution, which explicitly upholds equality before the law and prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.
The egalitarian should uphold equality of opportunity not equality of outcome.
From a normative standpoint, things are clear: cosmopolitans who uphold equality, global justice, ethno-religious tolerance and human rights cannot accept right-wing populism.
Both coalition parties went that extra mile to woo various equalities lobbies before the general election, yet Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are now conspiring to dramatically downsize the institution responsible for upholding equalities laws.
In the best-named case ever, Loving v. Virginia, the United States Supreme Court in 1967 upheld marriage equality nationwide, despite polls showing 70percentt opposed.
The only marriage that I saw fall apart after [the Supreme Court upheld marriage equality] was Josh Duggar's," he said. .
On Thursday night, during the first Fox News 2016 debate, Santorum compared Obergefell v. Hodges, the recently decided Supreme Court case that upheld marriage equality, to the Dred Scott case in 1857.
