g. Equal Protection Clause) or verbiage that "should" be there (equal protection for LGBT people overall) (Hicks, 2016)
Until society learns to tear down and not focus on what makes us different or divides us, the rancor will continue. References Associated Press. (2016)
The Brown v. Board of Education and rulings along those same subject lines proved that to be the case even if society lagged behind in terms of accepting it (Rosenberg, 2008)
Regardless, until the Obergefell decision, there was really no federal mandate or ruling of any kind that LGBT advocates could hang their proverbial hat on. The Equal Protection Clause, of course, is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Rosenbloom, O'Leary, & Chanin, 2010)
The county clerk kerfuffle in Kentucky is just one example of many that could be cited. Indeed, Kim Davis openly defied the Obergefell ruling and what it meant to her job (Siemaszko, 2016)
The most important thing regarding the legislation of abortion in the Biblical law is that none exists. It was quite unimaginable that an Israelite woman would wish to have an abortion; that there was no necessity to mention this particular crime in the criminal code (G.Kline)