HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: … “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well,“ [President Barack] Obama told the freezing multitude on the National Mall and the millions more watching at home.
In a speech rooted in the nation’s foundational texts, and on the same day as Martin Luther King’s birthday, the president’s words were a reminder that even though America has come a long way on civil rights, there are still miles left to go in that journey.
And the continued steps along that path should, and ought, to begin in Pennsylvania, the state where those ideals of freedom and equality were forged in the heat of a revolution… (more)
