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The Coming Of The Faith-Based Bar Examination
Category: Seeing Clearly Now
Religions are getting pretty microscopic in the conduct they prohibit. Apparently, one religion now proscribes the answering of bar examination questions that require the applicant to accept, support and promote homosexual marriage and parenting. I suspect the same religion prohibits answering bar examination questions that require the applicant to accept, support and promote family planning, condom use, embryonic stem cell research, habeas corpus for evildoers and working on the Sabbath.
What this country needs is a faith-based bar examination.
MA: Failed Applicant Sues Bar Examiners Over Test Question on Gay Marriage
A Massachusetts bar examination applicant who claims he failed the test because he didn't answer a question about homosexual marriage and parenting is suing the test administration agency, the state Supreme Judicial Court and four individual justices for constitutional violations.Dunne claims his score of 268.866 on the November 2006 bar exam just missed the passing score of 270 points because he didn't follow the proscribed format for an unlawful question about gay marriage. Dunne said the question required applicants to "affirmatively accept, support and promote homosexual marriage and homosexual parenting." Dunne claims the defendants violated his First Amendment right to exercise his religion and violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. He also claims their actions impose illegal state regulations on interstate commerce.
Dunne failed to mention how insensitive it was of the bar examiners to ask him to think like a lawyer.
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The United States Constitution forbids individual states from preventing qualified attorneys from practicing law based on the lawyer�s political leanings. Massachusetts violated the Constitution by including a question on homosexual marriage on the Massachusetts bar examination.
No state can refuse the granting of a law license based upon one�s particular viewpoint.
Posted by: Stephen Dunne at August 2, 2007 10:42 PM