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Related: About this forumPosner's decision in the Wisconsin and Indiana cases
It's worth reading. LOTS of great exposition.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/238675754/14-2386-212
Examples:
"The discrimination against same-sex couples is irra-tional, and therefore unconstitutional even if the discrimina-tion is not subjected to heightened scrutiny, which is why we can largely elide the more complex analysis found in more closely balanced equal-protection cases."
and
"In other words, Indianas government thinks that straight couples tend to be sexually irresponsible, producing unwanted children by the carload, and so must be pressured (in the form of governmental encouragement of marriage through a combination of sticks and carrots) to marry, but that gay couples, unable as they are to produce children wanted or unwanted, are model parentsmodel citizens re-allyso have no need for marriage. Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure."
elleng
(130,974 posts)He may make it to the Supremes.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)For being a judge who won't put up with the sophomoric bullshit that these states are using for "rationale".
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)It was a refreshing read because of its clarity, its humor, and its honesty.