At the end of the most momentous week in gay rights since June of 2013, we cats think it's appropriate to stop for a moment and salute the woman whose court case helped make the tsunami of the last few days possible.
The so-called experts expected Prop 8 to be the case on which marriage equality hinged. We cats think it takes nothing away from Judge Vaughn Walker's elegant decision in California to acknowledge that instead it turned out to be US v. Windsor.
Edie Windsor got socked with a zillion-dollar tax bill from her late partner's estate, and she got mad. Then, she did something about it. And now the country is different than it was.
All the court cases that have transformed American life have started out this way: Somebody takes a lot of time, trouble, and probably money, to make a point that means a great deal to them personally. Not everybody has the guts to do this. But to Edie Windsor and all the other people who do, we cats send scratchy kisses and PURR.
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