Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human rights. That isn't democracy, it is mob rule.

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

Separate but equal is not equal, but it sure is separate.

Not being treated as equal IS oppression

There is a word which sums up this 'separate but equal' mentality - Apartheid. And we all know how separate and how equal that was.

Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.