All people are equal. Despite their nationality, religion, or any other method of classification all people are equally capable of good or bad acts. I believe that there do need to be laws to stop descrimination in society, however, I believe that the approach we have taken is completely wrong.
For example why are there so many different laws for employment descrimination? Age, gender, sexual orientation, race, disability? Why is it that we need to be so explicit? Why is it not simply illegal to disciminate against anyone for any reason that is not directly related to the position for which they are applying? I've often heard of calls for race quotas in industry, but how is this "positive discrimination" any better than the descrimination it attempts to solve? As an employer I would really hate to turn down a very qualified person for a job and then have to offer it to a less qualified person simply because I haven't met some ridiculous quota.
Equality means that everyone is equal, it shouldn't mean giving more rights to any form of minority in order to try to offset some kind of imbalance. If I had no legs it wouldn't affect my ability to do my current (computer related) job in the slightest, I wouldn't expect any kind of positive discrimination at all when attempting to get a job. On the other hand I would not expect to be discriminated against when applying