Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic has an interesting and revealing list of the facts the judge found in making his decision. These are facts, not opinions — propositions for which the plaintiffs found evidence and the defendants could find no compelling counter evidence. Go over there and check them out. Don’t worry; I’ll wait. Now, how many of these statements could have been accepted as facts twenty years ago? Ten? Five?
There’s one that made me tear up a little:
5. Same-sex love and intimacy “are well-documented in human history.”
Thank you, John Boswell. Sometimes even a medievalist can have an impact that lasts beyond his death.