I’m really sorry you don’t understand the difference between the legislature and the judiciary. Too complicated? The law as written, didn’t cover the horrible acts committed. The legislature writes the laws. The judiciary interprets them. It is a principle of judicial interpretation that laws that put people at risk of criminal punishment be narrowly interpreted and must be free of vagueness, so that people can be clear about what is illegal and what is not. Otherwise, you risk putting people in prison who would have no reason to think they were breaking the law. The Mass. legislature corrected this oversight quickly once they were forced to, but should have acted much sooner. The judges did their job, and the law has been made better by that.
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He’s looking sharp.
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I am too, and at first I thought you were wrong. Damnit. 
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Came to bitch at the unduly snarky tone and relatively lack of thought in Rob’s original summary, and I see that several others have beaten me to it.
My faith in humanity has been restored a little today, thanks to happy mutants.
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