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Law Grad Apologizes for Gay Marriage Bar Exam Question
Posted Jan 11, 2008, 07:30 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A law grad who filed a lawsuit because he flunked the Massachusetts bar exam is apologizing to gays for being “an instrument of bigotry and prejudice.”
Stephen Dunne had filed a lawsuit claiming he failed the exam because he didn’t answer a question that required him to implicitly support gay marriage and parenting. He later withdrew the suit after bar examiners dropped the question from the next exam.
Dunne sent an e-mail apology to Bay Windows, a gay newspaper in Boston, and told an editor he is embarrassed at what he did.
In his letter, Dunne said he was writing to “apologize to the gay community for having been an instrument of bigotry and prejudice” by filing a misguided lawsuit that “regrettably perpetuated intolerance and animosity.”
Explaining himself in the interview, Dunne said he filed the lawsuit in anger. “It was a lashing out as a result of failing the bar exam,” he said. “I mean I think I failed by a fraction of a point and I skipped a question that was 30 points. So I obviously failed myself.”
Legal Blog Watch noted Dunne’s change of heart, citing Universal Hub as its source.
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Posted by J.D. - 7 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
Yeah, filing a lawsuit for failing the bar is ridiculous. And his lack of conviction is even more pathetic.
But it is VERY TRUE that all of the leftists who permeate the ABA and law testing organizations are trying to force people into agreeing with left-leaning social positions. For example, constitutional law requires analysis of many different and significant theories and ideas. But because there is so much to cover, class courses and bar prep courses generally cannot cover smaller areas of constitutional law with much detail.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ABORTION, the courses slow down for excruciating detail as if abortion is somehow as important—or more important—than the Commerce Clause or the First Amendment. The decision to place significant weight on this shows a bias in and of itself.
Same for gay marriage. Seriously, is sodomy something that’s really important in all Con Law courses these days? Well, we discuss it at length in school and in preparation for the bar.
And students still graduate with a limited understanding of the First Amendment.