Catholic theologians support New York elephant rights case
They are the latest experts to join the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) in calling for freedom and sanctuary for Happy the Bronx Zoo elephant
NEW YORK Five Catholic theologians have submitted a brief to the New York Court of Appeals in support of an elephant rights case brought by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) to free an elephant from solitary confinement in the Bronx Zoo to an elephant sanctuary.
Drawing on their expertise in Catholic moral theology, ethics, animal ethics, ecological theology, theology and science, and bioethics, their amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief urges New York’s highest court to accept the NhRP’s recently filed appeal in Happy’s habeas corpus case and argues that “Happy is not a thing for us to confine, use, and put on display in a zoo (even in an attempt to produce a good outcome), but rather a particular kind of creature who God made to flourish in a particular way a
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