THE REBUKE TO SANTORUM

So the Supreme Court uses specifically the privacy argument to over-turn Bowers v Hardwick in a larger than expected 6 – 3 decision. It would be hard to find a more emphatic statement that gay men and women are a) human beings whose private lives deserve privacy and b) citizens who deserve the same treatment as everyone else under the law. A Reagan appointee, Anthony Kennedy, wrote the decision. I haven’t read it all yet so this is a preliminary take. But each day now, I can feel freedom dawning in this land again. The struggle of so many for so long is beginning to come true. What a privilege, what a joy, to be alive to witness it.