Orangutan Marriage

Many people thought I was crazy when I said that man-dog marriage in the name of “marriage equality” was the next thing coming. Well, a court in Argentina ruled late last year that “a shy orangutan who spent the last 20 years in a zoo can be granted some legal rights enjoyed by humans.” Lawyers argued that the orangutan was being “illegally detained.” It was in a situation of illegal deprivation of freedom as a “non-human person.” Lawyers even filed a habeas corpus writ. The orangutan was a person in the “philosophical, not biological, sense,” said Argentina’s Association of Professional Lawyers for Animal Rights. Let’s hope that this foolishness doesn’t spread to the United States.

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