Rights Still to Be Won
By Julian Bond
Washington Post, DC
Friday, October 9, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/08/AR2009100803292.htmlThe civil rights struggle for legal equality in America today is no
less necessary, nor worthy, than a similar struggle fought by blacks
several decades ago. Now, as then, Americans are denied rights simply
because of who they are. When lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Americans gather in Washington on Sunday for the National Equality
March, they will invoke the unfulfilled promise in our Constitution
that they, too, are due equal protection under the law.
I will join them in their march because I believe in their equality
and believe in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution that promises to
protect it. I will join them because the humanity of all people is
diminished when any class of people is denied privileges granted to
others. I will join them because I know that when heterosexuals stand
up and call for justice alongside their lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender brothers and sisters, the sooner justice will come.
