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And why am I in such a good mood?

Because Paul Smith, oral advocate (ha ha, but seriously, people, that's what they're called) in the Lawrence v. Texas decision, spoke at my school yesterday. And it was fucking amazing. Man, when he read from Kennedy's majority opinion, about how

"Had those who drew and ratified the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment known the components of liberty in its manifold possibilities, they might have been more specific. They did not presume to have this insight. They knew times can blind us to certain truths and later generations can see that laws once thought necessary and proper in fact only serve to oppress. As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom."

I almost wept.

I needed some kind of inspiration to get me through finals. I think I have it. And all it took was some dude who won a landmark civil rights decision.