QuoteOver 100 newly-minted lawyers walked out of their own graduation at the University of Michigan Law School on Saturday to protest the ceremony's commencement speaker, anti-gay Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH). As Andrew Selbst, one of the student organizers of the walkout, explains, Portman's chilly reception is merely the latest sign that the senator's opposition to marriage equality and other basic human rights no longer has a place is American society:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/09/portman-michigan-walkout/
Glad to hear it. That is the proper response to morally bankrupt weasels.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 10, 2011, 05:01:40 PM
Glad to hear it. That is the proper response to morally bankrupt weasels.
Agreed. And it gives me a happy to see new LAWYERS deciding not to put up with this shit.
It breaks my heart that I'm this cynical, but they'd have tolerated it if it wasn't their graduation he was insulting with his presence.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 10, 2011, 05:05:28 PM
It breaks my heart that I'm this cynical, but they'd have tolerated it if it wasn't their graduation he was insulting with his presence.
Tsk. Closing your ears to lunatics will expose your ass for assault.
Sorry, I just woke up. Wha?
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 10, 2011, 05:12:22 PM
Sorry, I just woke up. Wha?
IMO it would have been better to remain and call him out on his bullshit.
Quote from: Charley Brown on May 10, 2011, 05:32:38 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 10, 2011, 05:12:22 PM
Sorry, I just woke up. Wha?
IMO it would have been better to remain and call him out on his bullshit.
THIS!
Besides, they are lawyers, this is probably the last decent thing any of them will do... :lulz:
Quote from: Charley Brown on May 10, 2011, 05:32:38 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 10, 2011, 05:12:22 PM
Sorry, I just woke up. Wha?
IMO it would have been better to remain and call him out on his bullshit.
Oh, hell yeah. But you can't depend on 100 lawyers to throw a proper riot. They're too tame.
Quote from: Charley Brown on May 10, 2011, 05:32:38 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 10, 2011, 05:12:22 PM
Sorry, I just woke up. Wha?
IMO it would have been better to remain and call him out on his bullshit.
Maybe... but heckling rarely makes the news. This did.