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Monday, July 07, 2003
How the Supremes came to realize
that gays and lesbians are people, too. So why did the US Supreme
Court issue such a progressive opinion in the Texas sodomy case? The
New York Times' Linda
Greenhouse explains:
The Supreme Court has
become a gay-friendly workplace where employees feel sufficiently
comfortable in their open identity to bring their partners to
court functions. Justice Powell's comment to one of his law clerks
while Bowers v. Hardwick was pending in 1986 that "I don't believe
I've ever met a homosexual" (untrue, considering that the clerk
was, in fact, gay) could not be uttered in the court -- or the
Washington or the legal profession -- of today.
If proximity leads to amity, then
let's say we all chip in and get the Boston Globe's Jeff
Jacoby a gay editorial assistant. Jacoby's two-parter against
same-sex marriage (here's part
one; here's
part
two) shows that he's out of
ammunition. But he's still firing away.
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