Do you believe in Equal Rights for all People ?

Question

Regardless of color, race, sexual orientation and religion ?

Answer 1

Yes, even people i don't like or can't understand. I believe in Liberty and Justice For All. Peace be with you

Answer 2

All people are born equal - what you do with yourself after that dictates how you will be treated. As far as your question goes - color, race, and orientation are not within anyone's control. You can't be a different color just because you want to.
But religion is another question. Everyone has a choice what they follow. If someone decided to worship Grokyl from planet Zoxopr, I'm not sure if he should be given the same rights as everyone else. It sounds like he's not playing with a full deck, ya know? Maybe he's brain-damaged because he decided to go skate-boarding without a helmet - and I don't think someone with the mental capacity of a 4 year-old should have the right to vote.

Answer 3

Yes of course I do. I have stated before I have relatives and friends who are homosexual and bisexual. I don't have a problem with it. How is love hurting anyone? This is not illegal the only time I say love is wrong if there is a significant age gap or it's forced. I have no problem with a man being and marrying another man. Or a woman marrying and being with another woman. I don't see why so many people have to condemn people to hell because of their sexual preferences. My view is everybody deserves to have someone to love. I'm a very unconventional christian. I don't believe everything I'm told and I don't follow the bible. I do however believe there is a greater power out there. I believe love is love and it shouldn't matter if it's a man and man. Or woman and woman. I have my own mind I don't allow others to tell me how to think. I support gay rights. I don't understand how people can get pist about it. It's not hurting them and these people are in love. I just don't get some people. Like I said though I fully support gay rights one of my best friends is. ^^Sorry for the rant.

Answer 4

Great ideal, but not really ever going to be practical. I'll tell you some of the reasons why. What is equality to you? What is equality to me? There might be some points we agree on, but what about where we differ? Does that make me right and you wrong or vice versa? Does that mean that we take out the parts we differ on and keep what we agree on? Then when you put that out into a wider context there is going to be even greater 'differences of opinions' Who draws that line in the sand? What about the people who are affected by parts that are cut? Then we go on the descent to gross inequality all over again.
Having said that there are certain 'codes of practice' that should transcend all cultural, ethical, social, political and religious boundaries. Such as mutual respect for each other, compassion, the ability to think reflectively and be willing to rational. All to often personal gain, greed, corruption and all out ignorance pervades in people's decision making. You know what the worst thing is? Apathy people thinking their opinion or feelings either don't matter or won't make a difference. Of course it will, we all have a personal responsibility in our everyday existences and to be apathetic is to ignore all that is 'wrong' and compound these problems.

Answer 5

In the main, yes I do. I also believe that certain rights should be withheld from certain individuals which make up groups you've not mentioned, founded on their *condition* and irrespective of their colour, race, sexual orientation and religion.

Should prisoners have the right to vote while in detention?

Should convicted paedophiles have the right to work in educating or raising children?

Should Bankrupts/Insolvents/Chapter 13 (?) have the right to start a new business before repaying debtors?

As a truly liberal aim, it is an ideal we can aspire to. However, we are unlikely ever to achieve it. We, all of us, have a morality which would preclude certain individuals from enjoying a (fully) liberal and equal existence with others.

So the issue is less about identified rights, evenly distributed across all platforms of human existence. Rather it is about the *fair* distribution of rights.

Fairness is subjective, however, and that is where the debate lies for those minority groupings seeking equivalence with a social majority.

So it is that Ethics need to be applied with consistence to ensure that no bias from one social grouping can impede or deny the granting of rights to another grouping.

What are the Ethics? An abstraction, removed from morality, these permit the case for the granting of rights with equanimity.

Consider abortion & gay marriage - they are moral (and yet not usually ethical) convictions which are used to argue contradictory stances.

Answer 6

I believe that all men are equal, I believe in showing respect for any human being regardless his color, race, sexual orientation or religion, and I believe that chosen stupidity is a reportable offence.

Answer 7

Yes I do. Equality for all, color, race, sexual orientation and religion. We all take up space on this planet, need air, food, water.

Answer 8

Colour, race, sexual orientation - yes. I don't think every religion should be treated with equal respect.

Answer 9

If you are talking about constitutional rights, then yes. When you say equal rights you are talking about a very broad subject that can involve some very heated philosophical discussion. There are rights in the public sector and then there are rights in the private sector. There is a point where the two must separate, such as is the case with church and state. I believe in the separation of church and state---the state has no business running a church and the church has no business running the government. the church makes its rules in order to best facilitate its mission and this can run contrary to the philosophy of government regulation. A church is, however, a private membership organization, where as government is not. I hope that you can see the philosophical differences between the two.

Answer 10

Yes! I do not think all people are equal though. Some have abilities that are better than others, but that does not give anyone the right to treat them less. Every person deserves equal treatment.

Answer 11

Using those criteria, yes, all are equal. But religites should never have the right to inform or influence public policy. They invariably use that right to try to force their religious views on everyone else. So, no, I do not believe in equal rights for everyone.