{"id":3489,"date":"2007-07-05T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/05\/fundamentalist-flunks-bar-exam-and-sues-because-of-exam-question-involving-lesbians\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T06:14:08","slug":"fundamentalist-flunks-bar-exam-and-sues-because-of-exam-question-involving-lesbians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Fundamentalist Flunks Bar Exam And Sues Because Of Exam Question Involving Lesbians"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Boston Herald<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n

A Boston man who failed the Massachusetts bar exam has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his refusal to answer a test question – related to gay marriage – caused him to flunk the test.<\/p>\n

Stephen Dunne, 30, is suing the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, claiming the \u201cinappropriate\u201d test question violated his religious convictions and his First Amendment rights. Answering the question, Dunne claims, would imply he endorsed gay marriage and parenting.<\/p>\n

The suit also challenges the constitutionality of the 2003 SJC ruling that made Massachusetts the nation\u2019s first state to legalize same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

Dunne, who describes himself as a Christian and a Democrat, is seeking $9.75 million in damages and wants a jury to prohibit the Board of Bar Examiners from considering the question in his passage of the exam and to order it removed from all future exams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The lunacy of Dunne’s position is obvious; because a lawyer disagrees with the law doesn’t exempt her from knowing the law. Dunne’s moral claim — that answering a factual question about a law implies agreement <\/em>with the law — is similarly groundless.<\/p>\n

This illustrates the sense of entitlement held by many fundamentalist Christians today. Consider the fundamentalist pharmacists and emergency room doctors who refuse to fulfill the duties of their job, but push for laws exempting them from the consequences of that decision; or the Christians who have objected to biology exams that ask questions about evolution.<\/p>\n

No one can force Dunne to answer an exam question he prefers to leave blank. But being Christian shouldn’t exempt Dunne from having to pass the bar exam if he wants to practice law. Unfortunately, Dunne’s attitude — which can be summed up as “let’s make a special law exempting Christians from the ordinary consequences of not meeting requirements” — seems increasingly common among right-wing Christians.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Zuzu at Majikthise<\/a> continues the mockery. As does Daddy, Papa and Me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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