Progressive group claims chimpanzees are like African Americans in bizarre lawsuit

This article, published by The Daily Caller, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith:

The offensive comparison is a dangerous and self-serving effort by progressives to win legal rights for animals via courtroom decisions, said a fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Wash., Wesley J. Smith, an author and a critic of the claim that legal rights should be shared with animals.

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