Does UVA have its own Regnerus scandal?

2014-05-25 Thread jim green
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 -

Re: Does UVA have its own Regnerus scandal?

2014-05-25 Thread jim green
Law of '97 On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Hillel Y. Levin hillelle...@gmail.comwrote: I don't agree with Doug's views on these issues, but this is an obscene witch hunt. On Sunday, May 25, 2014, jim green ugala...@gmail.com wrote: Too bad it took a few brave college students to do what

Re: Does UVA have its own Regnerus scandal?

2014-05-25 Thread jim green
deserves attention. But perhaps not for the same reasons that you do. Respectfully, Paul Horwitz Sent from my iPad On May 25, 2014, at 5:42 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

Re: Does UVA have its own Regnerus scandal?

2014-05-25 Thread jim green
:24 PM, jim green ugala...@gmail.com wrote: I see Horowitz is fast out of the gate defending Laycock as usual. I have responded ad nauseum to you in your comments section of your blog but as usual you deflect with a slew of questions as if I were your student in some parody of The Paper Chase

Re: Does UVA have its own Regnerus scandal?

2014-05-25 Thread jim green
This list is primarily a vehicle for academic self-promotion so drop the sanctimony Volokh... ---Jimmy green On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:27 PM, jim green ugala...@gmail.com wrote: Is this the same Eugene Volokh who is obsessed with gay men converting him? The same one who supported ex-gay

Re: Does UVA have its own Regnerus scandal?

2014-05-25 Thread jim green
gay, or not living up to your high standards of what a “1st tier law professor” would be. Eugene Volokh *From:* religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] *On Behalf Of *jim green *Sent:* Sunday, May 25, 2014 4:27 PM *To:* Law

Scope of Academic Representations re: Pending Legislation

2014-03-12 Thread jim green
I find it very disturbing that Laycock, et. al. basically acted as cheer leaders for a bill they knew was controversial, to say the least, among their fellow scholars. The analysis proffered to the legislature did not mention the potential non-discrimination hazards at all - that issue was

Re: Testimony on Kansas Statutory Protection of Religious Liberty

2014-03-10 Thread jim green
Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, R-Hutchinson, asked Scarberry about whether legal protections for the LGBT community would conflict with religious freedom protections. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/03/06/3329020/senate-judiciary-committee-reviews.html#storylink=cpy Scarberry said

Whispering in the ear of Jan Brewer....

2014-03-01 Thread jim green
Interesting political intervention from a group of list members who describe themselves as: *Some of us are Republicans; some of us are Democrats. Some of us are religious; some of us are not. Some of us oppose same-sex marriage; some of us support it. Nine of the eleven signers of this letter

Re: The pain of discrimination and the role of government

2014-03-01 Thread jim green
So the answer to discrimination against gays lesbians is for them to go back into closet! All of these queers mincing around looking for a lawsuit - you've busted us. I suppose I could play the rhetorical games and have you replace gay with christian or explain how heterosexuals flaunt their

Irish Debate on Same Sex Marriage

2014-03-01 Thread jim green
Excellent article in the Guardian about a huge row that has erupted in Ireland over homophobia that addresses some of the same concerns raised on this list - who gets to decide what constitutes homophobia, how did the focus shifted away from the harm done to gay people by discrimination to the

Re: Discrimination and divination

2014-03-01 Thread jim green
In most of the country, none of your fevered speculation would matter because conservatives, including several academics on this list, have opposed extending non-discrimination laws to include sexuality, much less gender identity (or if they would so cobble such protections with large carve outs

Re: Discrimination and divination

2014-03-01 Thread jim green
So you delete me but not Mr. Linden...why should I expect anything else from you Mark... On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Scarberry, Mark mark.scarbe...@pepperdine.edu wrote: Further posts from Mr. Green will be deleted unread. Mark S. Scarberry Pepperdine University School of Law Sent

Re: Definition of discrimination.

2014-03-01 Thread jim green
It must be nice to live in Professor's Laycock's world where anti-gay discrimination has been eclipsed by anti-religious bigotry but as a gay man, I don't have the that luxury. I won't waste the lists time by pointing out the blinding privilege it takes to make such a comparison but it happens