02 Oct 2007

US Wins; Yale Law Loses

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New York Times:

For five years, Yale Law School has fought to restrict military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon’s policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. But with the federal government threatening to withhold $350 million in grants if the university does not assist the recruiters, that fight will all but end on Monday.

After an appeals court ruled in favor of the Defense Department on Sept. 17, the law school said it would allow recruiters from the Air Force and Navy to participate in a university-sponsored job interview program for law students on Monday afternoon. For now, the legal battle to stop the recruiters is over, said Robert A. Burt, a Yale law professor and the lead plaintiff in the case.

“The judges who hold office at the moment disagree with us,” Professor Burt said. “We must wait for history to vindicate our position.”

History will have nothing but contempt and derision for pampered academic prigs whose commitment to leveling the distinction between perversity and ordinary life so greatly exceeds their loyalty to country and their gratitude to the armed forces which defend them.

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Scott D

Yale’s opinion is that graduates who might want to pursue a career in extortion by interviewing with Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins are clearly a moral step above those who might want to assist the military in defending our country.



Banjo

Anyone ever ask Bill and Hill their views on this question? Both went to the Yale law school. Is it possible even they are to the left of the faculty?



Marc Stiles

It is my hope that Professor Burt’s wait for vindication is unending.



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