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Article: COLUMN: No domestic partner benefits for anyone is fair
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- April 19, 2000
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John Hejkal
University Wire
04-19-2000
(Daily Nebraskan) (U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ... nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
So says the 14th Amendment. Let's extend that to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "UNL shall not make any policy which shall abridge the privileges of its students or employees ..."
People of a homosexual orientation, we can assume, merit equal treatment and laws. Discriminating against them because of their orientation would be inconsistent with the above premise. The same goes for heterosexually ...