“I, like the founders, believe God created all men (meaning human persons, male and female) equal.”
Thus you and the “kooky white nationalists” that you detest are equal. You and Hitler are equal. Or you and Einstein are equal. Or you and LeBron are equal. And there are no differences between you and your wife.
This preposterous notion of equality has caused and is causing most of our problems, including the expectation of equal outcomes, after all if we’re all equal we all should have the same things. If not it’s because somebody is racist, sexist, homophobic, capitalist...
The fact is that the insipid notion that we’re all equal (or created equal) flies in the face of the most obvious of realities - THAT WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
And thank God he did that. What a depressingly boring world it would be if we were all equal.
I can hear you now. “I don’t really mean “equal” when I say equal”
OK, so what exactly do you mean?
(more on the rest of your comment later)
“Thus you and the ‘kooky white nationalists’ that you detest are equal. You and Hitler are equal. Or you and Einstein are equal. Or you and LeBron are equal. And there are no differences between you and your wife.”
Equal does not mean one and the same. It means we all have equal, autonomous, inalienable, natural rights as human beings.
This equality does not mean we all own the same amount, we all posses the same attributes, or that we are all guaranteed the same outcomes. Rather, the outcomes and consequences of our choices are different because the same natural laws apply to us all equally.
I get neither the same outcome or consequences of my actions as Hitler or Einstein because I am neither of these men, nor have I committed mass murder, nor figured out the mathematical nature of time and space.
The consequence of true equality is not that people can not be born into different statuses, but that there are no intrinsic classes of people. There are no royalty to whom laws should be applied differently or who are entitled to rule over others. And even in the days of legal slavery, there were no free people who could not lose their freedom. Nor were there those who were born into slavery (or poverty, or sickness, or being orphaned) whose status in life could never be changed because of the class they were born into.