Saturday, July 5, 2014

The Judiciary and Same-Sex Marriage Contagion


The other day as I sat down to eat lunch, I turned on a cable news channel and simultaneously checked my email.

I was immediately engulfed in a media barrage: A Kentucky judge had rejected the state's same-sex marriage ban.

U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II wrote:
"The court could think of no... conceivable legitimate reason for Kentucky’s laws excluding same-sex couples from marriage.
That's funny -- I could think of several.

But the gay marriage story out of Kentucky was just one of many on my news feed. Algorithms designed by Yahoo wiz kids make sure that at least twenty-five percent of the headlines I see are positive stories about same-sex marriage.

Reading just Yahoo, it seemed even the Cherubim and Seraphim were proclaiming heaven's joy at Kentucky's 'come to Jesus' moment.

Interestingly, I had read the previous weekend about the revelation of a clandestine experiment that Facebook conducted on its subscribers.  (more...)

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