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Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Recent gay positive court decisions - GO!
Just as the Boy Scouts believed that "homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the Scout Oath," id. At 652, the law schools believe that employment discrimination is inconsistent with their commitment to justice and fairness. Just as the Boy Scouts maintained that "homosexuals do not provide a role model consistent with the expectations of Scouting families," id., the law schools maintain that military recruiters engaging in exclusionary hiring "do not provide a role model consistent with the expectations of," id., their students and the legal community. Just as the Boy Scouts endeavored to "inculcate [youth] with the Boy Scouts' values--both expressively and by example," id. at 649-50, the law schools endeavor to "inculcate" their students [*26] with their chosen values by expression and example in the promulgation and enforcement of their nondiscrimination policies. FAIR Br. at 22-25. And just as "Dale's presence in the Boy Scouts would, at the very least, force the organization to send a message, both to youth members and the world, that the Boy Scouts accepts homosexual conduct as a legitimate form of behavior," Dale, 530 U.S. at 653, the presence of military recruiters "would, at the very least, force the law schools to send a message," both to students and the legal community, that the law schools "accept" employment discrimination "as a legitimate form of behavior." Id.
Forum for Academic & Institutional Rights v. Rumsfeld, 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 24598, 25-26 (3d Cir., 2004)
The moral of the story - Law schools with anti discrimination policies which require recruiters to sign a form stating they will not discriminate based on sexual orientation may no longer be required to make "exceptions" for the military and their "don't ask don't tell" policy.
HaHa Eat that far right - you CANNOT have your cake and eat it too! Our "activist" judges are coming for YOU! YOU cannot hide.
(Backstory, I knew the courts had stuck it to anti-gay people this week. I listened to Pat Robertson blab on about my love not being real. I decided to get my revenge and publish it.)
posted by ZEUS @ 10:31 PM,
