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I don't usually call Slate's Supreme Court reporter, Mark Joseph Stern, and to ask him to tell me the plot of a children's book.

But there's a first time for everything, right?

The book I wanted Mark to tell me about is called Uncle Bobby's Wedding.

Okay, Uncle Bobby's Wedding is about a little girl, Chloe, who has a favorite uncle, Bobby,

who is getting married to his longtime boyfriend, Jamie.

Chloe is initially distraught that Uncle Bobby is getting married, not because he's getting married to a man,

but because she is worried that he won't have as much free time to spend with her.

So far, so fine.

Except last week, this book wound up in the hands of Supreme Court Justice,

Sam Alito.

Do you think it's fair to say that all that is done in Uncle Bobby's wedding is to expose children

to the fact that there are men who marry other men.

Justice Alito was picking apart the plot of this storybook, an open court last week,

because the justices are being asked to decide if Uncle Bobby's wedding, and books like it,

should be freely available in public schools. The case is known as Mahmoud

v. Taylor. Justice Alito hated this book, one star on Goodreads. He would have given it zero if he could.

He claimed that the book has a moral message, which is that children who have reservations about same-sex marriage and homosexuality

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