Let's start with this premise: Equal treatment under the law. That is what the U.S. Constitution guarantees, and that is what we, as Americans, agree to in accepting the Constitution as our democratic blueprint. That is our baseline. Every law, every judicial decision must support that notion, otherwise we are...

Do we Americans merely pay lip service to the question of separation of Church and State as set forth by our Constitution? With the question of marriage, it seems we do. The struggle for marriage between people of the same gender has become a battle to give or deny equal...