When a dyed-in-the-wool Republican advocates for animals this way and a dyed-in-the-wool conservative like David Frum writes respectfuly of him then you know we animal-lovers are getting there!

Loving animals ... without hating humans

David Frum
National Post

Saturday, November 09, 2002

"Scully and his bags of nuts occupied the office next to mine when we worked together as White House speechwriters -- but no more. Scully left the president's employ in June to take on a new cause, the cause of his animal friends. He makes his case in a remarkable new book: Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy.

"Animals," he writes, "are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't: because they all stand unequal and powerless before us."