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U. Wisconsin: COLUMN: Court weighs culture, law.
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It might have been lost in all the commotion preceding the drunken revelry of Madison’s Halloween weekend, but a case decided in New Jersey showed that courts can get an issue right. Without appealing to the leftist mantra of semantic equality, nor the right’s naive insistence that same-sex couples don’t exist and don’t deserve rights, the New Jersey Supreme Court decided fairly and with restraint that marriage, or something of a different name, is a right guaranteed to all. The decision should prompt Wisconsinites, in the middle of our referendum battle on marriage and civil unions, to realize a truism… |
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