We the people

In theory our country was founded on the idea that all men are created equal and yet it doesn't look like that was actually the truth.

As soon as we had politicians some of them became our surrogate royalty. Men who believed they were entitled to special treatment and entitlements other men and women were not. Right behind them were all the other people with money. They were the rest of our royalty, people who could pay their way into, or out of, a new morality.

Of course this was justified by "truths" that said African Americans, women, and various and sundry immigrants were really children, or incompetent, or incapable of handling actual equality.

People have the right to own their own body and expect others to leave that body alone. I don't believe any religion has the right to dictate the laws, but the idea that we should treat others the way we want to be treated is not a bad idea. Too many people have a double standard and too many other people know this and simply turn a blind eye.

You can't say all people are created equal and then treat some of them like chattel.