L-O-S-E-R. Boston resident Stephen Dunne has asked a federal court to dismiss his ridiculous lawsuit that claimed his religious rights were violated when he was presented with a question on same-sex marriage. His 268.866 score on the November 2006 bar just missed the passing score of 270 points.
This is the question that offended Mr. Dunne:
"Yesterday, Jane got drunk and hit (her spouse) Mary with a baseball bat, breaking Mary's leg, when she learned that Mary was having an affair with Lisa. As a result, Mary decided to end her marriage with Jane in order to live in her house with (children) Philip (and) Charles and Lisa. What are the rights of Mary and Jane?"
In July I blogged about this suit, after Dunne launched a website, christianlawsuit.com (it only goes to his dismissal document now), he put up a batsh*t insane statement:
My dream is to become a Lawyer, but I cannot defile my Christian faith simply to pass an examination. I will not pay the price that the Defendants are forcing me to pay in order to practice law in Massachusetts. There is no price tag on my faith. It is not for sale.
He also modestly proclaimed:
I am challenging the constitutionality of Homosexual Marriage and Homosexual Parenting in Massachusetts. In 2003, four unelected judges legalized Homosexual Marriage in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 798 N.E. 2d 941 (Mass. 2003). I sincerely believe that this ruling is profoundly undemocratic and un-American.
I have preemptively fired the first shot that has been heard around the world.
Uh, not really.
A question of this nature was not included in the most recent bar exam, so Dunne tries to claim victory much in the same way the American Family Association's Don Wildmon likes to think Ford is being hurt by his fundie boycott:
In court documents, Dunne said he wanted to drop his suit because the July bar exam didn't include what he called the "patently offensive and morally repugnant" gay marriage question. He characterized that as a "corrective action" by the board.
In a move to quickly smack down that assertion...
[I]n court documents filed yesterday, the board's attorney said the board has "not agreed to limit the content" of any future bar exams. The board's decision not to include the same question on the July exam "merely reflects their standard practice of not repeating questions on successive bar examinations," the court filing said.
...The board maintains that the question was a legitimate one regarding current Massachusetts law.
