Chelsea Manning Is No Hero. She Belongs In Jail

In 1850, the abolitionist Theodore Parker said:

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

This is the quote that Martin Luther King distilled down to the more effective “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Such is one of the foundation stones of modern liberal morality, that there must be equality of justice for all, not just for the chosen few. This is enshrined in our Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment’s “Equal Protection Clause”:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The Equal Protection Clause is the argument that resulted in the legalization of LGBTQ marriage in America as a…