Word: second-class
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...Harvard’s not taking film seriously, that makes it more difficult for second-class institutions who are trying to establish film programs,” he said. “It’s so easy to say, ‘Well, Harvard doesn?...
...dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil union’ and ‘civil marriage’ is not innocuous; it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status,” the justices wrote...
...mean using the words “gay” and “lesbian” in your State of the Union Address. If you are bent on disenfranchising us, then the least you can do is to speak our names out loud as you make us into second-class citizens...
Harvard is known for its _________ (adjective) museums, _________ (adjective) professors and its red brick _________ (plural noun). It’s not the first place in the world you would expect to find a world-class collection of second-class postage. But, like it often is, Harvard is full of _________ (synonym for surprises...
Equal legal rights, while essential for gay couples, are not enough to elevate them from their current second-class status. Civil unions provide equal rights but none of the emotional and often religious support of the institution of marriage. Denying gay couples the right to marry casts them as morally inferior to straight couples, and the state has no business making this hateful distinction. Supposed separate but equal institutions for gay and straight couples are inherently unequal. We should know better than to repeat the mistakes of an often-bigoted past...