Then you shouldn't let your party define you with idiocies like DOMA, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, banning gay/straight alliances in school, restricting women's right to choose, etc.
And kindly refrain from saying that some of these were passed during Dem administrations. The point is that righties, not lefties, are supportive of the above.
Furthermore, the Constitution had to be amended to allow some people the rights they have today. It certainly wasn't set up to guarantee equal rights to all.
First of all, DOMA and DADT, were both signed into law by President Clinton, who is not a member of the Republican party. Neither of these laws deny any fundamental right to any American, according to the Supreme Court of the United States. Both laws, it can be argued, protect fundamental rights of others. With DOMA, the right to religious freedom is protected, and with DADT, the right to privacy is protected. Now, it doesn't really matter what your "perceptions" are, we can "perceive" any rights we feel like... I could say it's my fundamental right to put a bullet in the head of pinheads, in order to save my country... it doesn't make my perception correct, does it? What matters, is what the Supreme Court decides and what the Constitution actually says is a fundamental right. You have no Constitutional basis to claim DADT or DOMA violate Constitutional rights, other than your baseless perception.
With Abortion, women use their constitutional right to privacy to take the life of another human being. It is the right who stands for the rights of those human beings, and the left who deny those rights even exist. Again, it is a difference in perception, and unfortunately, in the case of abortion, the SCOTUS happened to rule in your favor. But an argument over constitutional rights persists, because the Constitution says what it says.
Furthermore, the Constitution had to be amended to allow some people the rights they have today. It certainly wasn't set up to guarantee equal rights to all.
Technically, you are wrong again. I'm sure you are familiar with Frederick Douglass? Well, when Fred was out there advocating for abolition of slavery, he believed like you, that the Constitution was a white man's document, designed to keep the black man oppressed. That is, until he actually READ it! Once Douglass had read the Constitution, he realized that it was actually an
anti-slavery document. The brilliance of our Founding Fathers, was to pen a Constitution which stated unequivocally, that all men are equal and all men are endowed with freedom and liberty by their creator, and we are governed by the laws of nature and nature's god.
Indeed, we have found it necessary, several times, to amend the constitution, in order to clarify specific individual rights, or reinforce rights already there. It's not because the Constitution didn't have those rights, it was because we didn't interpret those rights or have the perception they existed.