Please elaborate on exactly *how* this will contribute to “degrading the status of people?”
They are giving animals “human rights”. Did you read the story? Bad enough that they are not being enforced for humans, but imagine an activist judge taking this a step further?
Oregon’s liberalism has produced nothing good.
There is a huge leap between preventing cruelty to animals and equating them with human beings. In the first case, there are long-standing laws that LEOs can refer to and prevent further pain and suffering of the animal. In the second case, humans are seen merely as animals, which we are not. If we are simply another form of animal life (as asserted by the Hard Left), then there is no logical difference between pre-meditated murder and all of the slaughter houses of the country, no logical difference between kidnapping and holding a goldfish captive in a tank, no logical difference between slavery and keeping a seeing eye dog, and no logical difference between marrying a dolphin and marrying someone of my own species.