Friday, March 06, 2009

Put up or shut up...

Ok, this has nothing to do with animal law whatsoever but...

A fabulous article by Slate Magazine's Kenji Yoshino the other day about a new lawsuit filed in Massachusetts. On the surface, it's about gay rights. But if you can get past the initial homophobia that seems (unfortunately) to paralyze so many folks... it's really about state's rights.

In a nutshell... it puts the uber-conservatives on our Supreme Court in the unenviable position of either having to stick to their "core" values upholding state's rights by giving their blessing (just couldn't resist ;) ) to gay marriage in the bay state... or show themselves to be the hypocrites (think Bush v. Gore) that they really are...

... if you are intrigued, read on...

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