Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.
When the Left doesn't want to make abortion the issue, they say you're being against minorities.
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.
It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections.