the feminist librarian reads

This isn’t legal argumentation. It’s the projection of many religious traditionalists’ own history of persecution of minorities onto those minorities, the claiming of victim status that victimizers frequently employ. One searches in vain for any glimmering of realization in Alito’s opinion that “the harsh treatment of gays and lesbians” isn’t just confined to “the past,” as he asserts; that young gays and lesbians in particular still face hatred and ridicule that is partly legitimated by the prohibition of same-sex marriage. Alito’s capacity for empathy, apparently, extends to people just like himself and then grinds to a halt.