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[garbon]

I guess that could be correct, but otherwise he was probably reacting to the stress he was under to do something that he, a well educated and intelligent man (BA, Duke University, JD, George Washington University) knew was wrong but felt compelled to pretend to entertain anyway.  Further, as a Catholic I doubt he's very religious and obviously every politician here has to pretend to be a religious nut to have any prayer of being elected, so I would imagine that is something of a source of cognitive dissonance for him.

That makes the crying odd though. If the dissonance stems from him wanting to tolerate gays but feeling political pressure not - why cry when you take the action you want to take? Unless the tears are that you realized you are doing something that is politically dangerous and does anyone want a politician who cries about that?

[Valmy]

If you cry and mention Jesus everybody in Kentucky will forgive you for your sins.

[garbon]

Lovely that the Kentucky governor is going to hire other counsel.

[Valmy]

Lovely that the Kentucky governor is going to hire other counsel.

I guess I was wrong on the whole Christian forgiveness thing.

[Caliga]

Lovely that the Kentucky governor is going to hire other counsel.

He's a giant hick, unlike Conway, so it's not surprising.  His hick homophobia outweighs his membership in the Democratic party.

[Sheilbh]

So England will be enjoying the first day of gay weddings with a televised gay wedding musical presided over by Stephen Fry
http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/stephen-fry-is-going-to-host-a-televised-same-sex-wedding-mu

[Sheilbh]

So gay marriage is now a thing in England and Wales:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/heartwarming-pictures-from-the-first-day-of-equal-marriag
People were asked what gay marriage meant to them, these guys seem to get that it just means more weddings


Here's a piece from gay and human rights activist Peter Tatchell ():
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/it-was-long-fight-equal-marriage-finally-it-s-here

I particularly like his outing of the sort of 'establishment' gay rights campaigners as not being pretty opposed to it.

And the gay wedding musical happened. I missed it

[Capetan Mihali]

So he prayed to be bigoted and God failed him?

Homophobia: The God That Failed. 

[Malthus]

This will be of particular interest to our Canuck law-talkers.

The Law Society of Upper Canada has requested submissions in connection with its consideration of the application of Trinity Western University ("TWU") for accreditation of its proposed law school. TWU is a private Christian faith-based university in British Columbia and intends to offer a law school program commencing in September 2015. In December 2013, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada determined that the proposed law program met the national requirement, which establishes the knowledge and skills that all applicants for entry to the bar admission programs of the law societies in the Canadian common law jurisdictions must possess. Now it falls to each provincial law society to decide whether to accredit TWU's proposed law school and licence its graduates to practice law. Attendance at an accredited law school is a prerequisite to licensure to practice law in Ontario.

The issue of concern to the Law Society is the "Community Covenant Agreement" (the "Covenant") which all TWU students, faculty and staff are required to sign. It requires adherence to a code of conduct which, among other things, requires abstention from "sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman". The Covenant discriminates against members of the LGBTQ community, unmarried persons and members of certain religious groups. If accreditation were granted, the effect of the Covenant would be to exclude such persons from a portion of the limited number of places available at accredited law schools for those persons who wish to qualify to practice law in Ontario.

The Advocates' Society established a task force to consider whether TAS should make a submission to the Law Society and, if so, what that submission ought to be. The recommendation of the task force, approved by TAS' Board of Directors, is that TAS ask that the Law Society not approve the application for accreditation by TWU. Amongst other things, TAS' submission notes that:

   (1) the legislation governing the Law Society requires that in carrying out its duties, the Law Society "advance the cause of justice and the rule of law" and "protect the public interest" and
   
   (2) the Law Society's Rules of Professional Conduct require members to "respect the dignity and worth of all persons and treat all persons equally without discrimination".

As TWU's proposed law school discriminates in the granting of admission on prohibited grounds, by virtue of the Covenant, TAS believes it would be inappropriate for the Law Society to grant TWU's application for accreditation.

The full submission of The Advocates' Society to the Law Society is available by clicking here.

[The Brain]

Where can I click for the full submission of Scarlett Johansson?

[Valmy]

Eh like anybody has time for sexual intimacy in law school anyway.

[Barrister]

Eh - we have all sorts of religious post-secondary institutions in this country that no one has ever been bothered about.  I can't see why having an evangelical law school is any worse than any other sort.

Now, whether BC needs 4 law schools is a whole different question...

[LaCroix]

Eh like anybody has time for sexual intimacy in law school anyway.

the amount of work in law school is exaggerated, at least in the first year. read 40 pages every day, work on a paper, and condense notes into an outline. cramming for finals takes time, though

So he prayed to be bigoted and God failed him?

why assume the crying was for a negative reason? sounds like the guy took a stand for what he believed in and was moved over it

[Malthus]

Eh - we have all sorts of religious post-secondary institutions in this country that no one has ever been bothered about.  I can't see why having an evangelical law school is any worse than any other sort.

Now, whether BC needs 4 law schools is a whole different question...

The notion (agree with it or not) is that law is different - it is supposed to be 'about' upholding the basic values of our society, in a way that (say) dentistry or math is not. Thus, a law school that requires students to sign a pledge that is inimical to those values should not be accredited.

[Barrister]

Eh - we have all sorts of religious post-secondary institutions in this country that no one has ever been bothered about.  I can't see why having an evangelical law school is any worse than any other sort.

Now, whether BC needs 4 law schools is a whole different question...

The notion (agree with it or not) is that law is different - it is supposed to be 'about' upholding the basic values of our society, in a way that (say) dentistry or math is not. Thus, a law school that requires students to sign a pledge that is inimical to those values should not be accredited.

Except that:

Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law:

TWU already went through this fight when they were accredited to teach education - and surely teachers are "about upholding the basic values of society" in an even more significant way than lawyers.

I see this as a Vikingesque anti-religion fight - nothing more.