Harvard administrators have decided that Massachusetts’ legalization of same-sex "marriage" in 2003 presented a new opportunity. Harvard’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Law Clinic will provide free and low-cost legal services to low-income GLBT clients.
The clinic will take up cases involving divorce, custody, child support, adoption and other family-law issues. It also will do advocacy work, The Boston Globe reported.
Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said this story illustrates the hidden societal consequences of a single act of judicial activism.
“In the aftermath of the Massachusetts Goodridge decision in 2003, it was popular among homosexual activists to publicly minimize the impact of same-sex marriage,” he said. “However, as this legal clinic's wide-ranging areas of work reveals, no area of family law is off-limits to social engineering in order to maximize the impact of what the Goodridge court started.”
