In the Declaration of Independence the phrase, "all men are created equal" means exactly and precisely this: that nobody, but, nobody has the right to be liked. Do kings and queens have the right to be liked? Do any royalty have the right to be liked? Do any nobility have the right to be liked? Does any aristocracy have the right to be liked? Nobody, but, nobody has the right to be liked! No matter how high up on the totem pole, no matter how low down on the totem pole, no matter where ever in between on the totem pole, nobody, but, absolutely nobody has the right to be liked. But, wouldn't some people love to get their hands on that magic wand, "Everybody must like me"! Well there is no such magic wand and if there were good luck anybody getting their hands on it because without a doubt, teen-age girls would be hogging it. And then there's the flip side. Human beings, especially adult human beings in this country, have the inherent authority and constitutional authority of freedom of speech, to say what they do and do not like and why, and who they do and do not like and why. If everybody has the right to be liked then everybody has the right to a totalitarian police state because then nobody has the inherent authority and constitutional authority of freedom of speech, to say what they do and do not like and why, and who they do and do not like and why. And just what king and dukes and lords and noblemen are going to be creating and controlling their Politically Correct right to be liked? Who has it and who doesn't have it? How they have it and how they don't have it? Who can violate it and who can't and under what circumstances and conditions it can and can not be violated? Yes, just what king and dukes and lords and noblemen are going to be creating and controlling their Politically Correct right to be liked? And that is exactly and precisely what the people at the very top pulling the strings on Political Correctness and same sex marriage are doing, creating and controlling this Politically Correct right to be liked. Which is why nobody, but, absolutely nobody has the right to be liked is the one and only way "all men are created equal", by definition! "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". "...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", that's what raises human beings up, "...that all men are created equal", doesn't raise human beings up, that's what knocks human beings back down! For example, Abraham Lincolns' Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal"."...conceived in liberty", thats what was raising the slaves up. Everybody has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thats what was raising the slaves up! "...and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal", that wasn't raising the slaves up, that was knocking southern whites back down! "No! You do not have the right to be liked. No, you do not have the royal prerogative to legally own another human being. Get back down! (SMACK!) All men are created equal"! Political Correctness advocates equality as being everybody has the right to be liked. Declaration of Independence espouses equality as being nobody, but, nobody has the right to be liked. The culture war! There's an old saying, "Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose". Political Correctness has reinterpreted this old saying, but for Politically Correct protected groups only, as being, "Your right to freedom of speech ends at the tip of my royal ego". So, am I to conclude equality like beauty is in the eye of the beholder?