Mr. Green, Law and religion academics have been disagreeing with Doug Laycock for years on the meaning of and proper scope of religious freedom. Prof. Laycock is well aware of the substantive impact of the issues he addresses — or as aware if those impacts as one can be on something so uncertain. I do not doubt his sincerity nor his commitment to religious liberty as well as many other aspects of civil rights howsoever often I disagree with his assessments and positions.
There are academic freedom issues you seem willing to ignore — something even the students seeking the information recognize as a concern, albeit one that they are willing to harm for their conception of a greater good. I second the comments of others on this list that you inform yourself more fully about the nature of the religious legal positions taken by Prof. Laycock and the proper legal context of them and address those if you want any meaningful participation from people on this list — including those of us who substantively may well support your political position and oppose Prof. Laycock’s legal position. What we, or at least I, cannot do is accept this sort of empty broadside by treating it seriously. Steven Jamar -- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Director of International Programs, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice http://iipsj.org Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 http://sdjlaw.org “There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.” Miles Davis On May 25, 2014, at 6:42 PM, jim green <ugala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Too bad it took a few brave college students to do what "responsible > academics" (including many on this list) have failed to do for years... > > http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/latest-news-ap/lgbt-activists-take-u-va-professor-to-task-for-stance/article_fa5680ce-e36e-11e3-a4ed-0017a43b2370.html > > > ---Jimmy Green > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as > private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; > people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) > forward the messages to others.
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