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Blame the Gays for 9/11 or Global Warming, But Not for Your Failing the Bar. Thanks.

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Remember Stephen Dunne, the aspiring attorney who brought suit after failing the Massachusetts bar exam, blaming it on a question about gay marriage? Well, he’s sorry. From the Boston Herald:

Stephen Dunne said he was “embarrassed” for being an “instrument of bigotry and prejudice,” in a letter to the editor and interview in the Jan. 3 edition of Bay Windows, a Boston newspaper serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered readers.

“By filing a misguided federal lawsuit . . . in respect to the legitimacy of same-sex marriage, I have regrettably perpetuated intolerance and animosity towards my fellow Americans,” Dunne said in his letter. “My religiously based discrimination of gay people was callous and diametrically opposed to America’s core principles of freedom and equality.”

Dunne filed a federal lawsuit in June against the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and Supreme Judicial Court, seeking to prohibit the gay marriage question from being used to compute his bar exam score and from being included on future exams. He argued that answering the “patently offensive and morally repugnant” question, which involved a married lesbian couple who was divorcing, would imply his support of gay marriage and parenting, in violation of his Irish Catholic beliefs and First Amendment rights. He also challenged the constitutionality of the SJC’s 2003 ruling under which Massachusetts became the nation’s first state to legalize same-sex marriage.

So what brought about his change of heart? Does Stephen Dunne have a boyfriend now?
P.S. Speaking of matters gay, we thank Professor Ann Althouse for linking to our personal blog in this post, about Senatrix Clinton as a gay icon.
Update: Additional discussion, including a link to a Q-and-A with Steve Dunne, over at Legal Blog Watch.
Failed bar exam-taker apologizes to gays [Boston Herald]
Law Grad to Gays: ‘I Apologize’ [Legal Blog Watch]
“Hillary Clinton As A Gay Icon.” [Althouse]

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