Bar exam flunker has hat in hand to fight marriage equality in Massachusetts

Warning!!

If you scroll down to the next story on the home page, you will be exposed to a NSFW picture.  Worst.President.Ever

For those to whom this warning is too late, I hope you didn't lose your lunch.

(Yes, I've graduated from not being able to listen to him to not being able to look at him.)

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by: scioto @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:31:46 PM CDT

Dunne is now suing for $9.75

Stephen Dunne amended his complaint and is now suing for for $9.75, down from $9,750,000.00.

http://www.keepingup...

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by: Jonas @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:45:49 PM CDT

so...

The majority of donations will be utilized exclusively to fund the incredible expenses of this Federal Lawsuit.

So where is the rest of the money going too?

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by: BB @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:46:16 PM CDT

Ha!

Well, I just admire his ambition! He saaaaays that his faith has no price tag, but from the look of things, he's going to find out what it could be if it had one. Sorta half-assed Race Game from the "Price is Right" if you asked me--he runs around, arms flailing, then pulls the handle until it's right.

Curses! My million dollar ideas foiled again: "God Bless Your Brand!" http://www.christvertising.com/

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by: TJ McFisty @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 14:08:11 PM CDT

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wrong state

Wouldn't he feel more comfortable affiliating with Regency U and taking the bar in Virginia?

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:51:57 PM CDT

certainly not The Keystone State

Comment to another blog alleges he failed the bar exam 4 times in Pennsylvania.


You can lead a fool to knowledge, but you can't make him think.  

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by: Dianne @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:16:18 PM CDT

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Makes sense

Then, just when it seemed like the voice in his head wasn't God after all, a decision was handed down in the far-off capital of heathen Massachusetts.

"Go!" said the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, "Go to the people of Massachusetts who are living in wickedness. Lo, I am sending you to be a light in the darkness, my voice among the sodomites! If they do not heed My Word and obey My faithful servant, giving him the recognition he so richly deserves, together with lots of money and maybe a big house out in Duxbury, I will surely destroy them all with fire, just as I destroyed Sodom, that wicked city, causing all of it's people to perish." Thus spake the Lord God.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

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by: Cambridge Kid @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:34:18 PM CDT

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Amen!

Amen...

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by: CathyG @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 14:21:19 PM CDT

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Delusions of Grandeur

"I have preemptively fired the first shot that has been heard around the world."  (Or, at least in his own mind!)

Frankly, I'm surprised the Taliban at the Alliance Defense Fund haven't picked up on this.  They love to champion baseless, wing nut cases like this one.  He mentioned hiring "America?s #1 Law Firm", but ADF sure doesn't qualify for that!

Hey!  If he'd passed that bar exam, he'd be able to represent himself! :-D

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by: Jon Michaels @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:59:05 PM CDT

He did it all wrong,

  Don't you see, he should have claimed to be an ex-gay that found Jesus, then he would have them falling all over him, and the $$$ would be rolling in for him.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 14:20:05 PM CDT

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Zeke

"I have preemptively fired the first shot..."

Um, does this idiot know what redundancy is? 

Perhaps he failed the bar because he has such a poor grasp of the English language; especially as it relates to rhetorical improprieties.

His writing is absolutely atrocious.

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by: Zeke @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 16:43:28 PM CDT

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Mr. Dunn needed to study harder not attempt to find a loophole.

It appears that he is making the issue that he was forced to answer a question incorrectly rather than violate his principles.  It appears to me that he should have studied harder so that he answered one or two other questions correctly and therefore he would have given himself the luxury of passing on the gay marrage question. 

In his mind it is the one question he missed rather than in reality, he wrote a very marginal bar exam.

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by: TomHickey @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:04:37 PM CDT

BINGO!

The total possible score is some 400 points.  He didn't fail because of his refusal to acknowledge the state law regarding same sex marriages.

He failed because he can't pass the bar.

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by: oddjob @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 19:31:35 PM CDT

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Independent Branches of the Government

If this a$$hat thinks the rulings of unelected judges are "undemocratic" and "unamerican", perhaps he flunked his bar exam for other reasons.  He needs a refresher in Constitutional Law, specifically the part about how judges are appointed at the federal level, and his state constitutional law as well.

Idiot.

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by: SuburbanHomo @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:05:06 PM CDT

WORD!

In Massachusetts, as at the federal level, judges are appointed by the executive and confirmed by the Senate.

Furthermore, the state legislature just killed a proposed amendment repealing same sex marriage, so now that democratically elected legislators have (de facto) affirmed same sex marriage here he's going to have a difficult time arguing that it's still an undemocratic feature of the state (if it ever was so).

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by: oddjob @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 19:36:21 PM CDT

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Incorrect...

..in Massachusetts, judges are nominated by the executive and confirmed by the governor's council.  An elected body, but it is separate from the state senate.

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by: raj @ Sun Jul 15, 2007 at 09:42:58 AM CDT

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I stand corrected.

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by: oddjob @ Sun Jul 15, 2007 at 13:36:54 PM CDT

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Oh, a LAWYER!

THAT'S what the fundamentalists forgot! If only they could have put together enough money for even a single lawyer, fresh out of squeaking through the bar by a single question, why then whole thing might have gone differently.

And of course, once they get a lawyer, the whole thing starts over. They will re-open Goodridge, and this time they will WIN because they never heard a lawyer as good as Stephen Dunne before! And then Stephen Dunne will score the winning touchdown and become President of the United States and be the first to walk on Mars!

Or he could hit the books and work on getting some of those other questions, eh? Maybe save the boasting for when he actually accomplishes something... or for that matter, understands just HOW he is going to accomplish it within our legal system. 

(Incidently, I think that we should all get free chocolate from the moon on thursday.  Just ask for an address where you can send your financial contributions. All or most of the money will go toward helping me pass law school so that I can make your dream, and mine, a reality at last.)

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

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by: Cambridge Kid @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:06:03 PM CDT

Do think...

the site is even his?  I looked up the domain name and it does list Stephen Dunne as the "organization name" but this could be some idiot making money off this loser.

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by: BB @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:19:43 PM CDT

Help a dense guy out

Can he sue to overturn legalized gay marriage in Mass. at this point?  It seems to me the issue made it to the courts, was settled, was enacted into law, and a constutitional amendment, quite likely the only remaing tool left for overturning the evil sin of gay marriage, was also defeated.  Isn't it likely the judges will refuse to hear this portion of the case again but might humorously take up the case of a guy suing because he's not QUITE smart enough to actually be a lawyer?

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by: eric @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 13:51:53 PM CDT

eric,

I think he's planning to sue in Federal Court, not State Court.  I'm not an attorney, but it seems to me if he were to sue in State Court it would be thrown out immediately.  It probably will at the Federal Court, too, but my guess is they'll politely tell the dumb ass that there are no federal issues invovled in his complaint, and that on the matter of marriage, it's a state matter.

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by: oddjob @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 19:41:13 PM CDT

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way to go, champ

If I were fighting for a license to practice law, I wouldn't do it by demonstrating a total misunderstanding of the role of the judiciary, stare decisis, and the separation of church and state.

www.coalitionofthethrilling.blogspot.com

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by: redwhiteandpink @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 14:34:19 PM CDT

Not to mention Constitutinal Law 101:

A neutral law of general applicability that is not specifically intended to burden religion is constitutional! 

I don't know what he's bitching about anyway.  I read the question - the couple gets divorced, so he should have been happy to answer it.

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by: Sanchito @ Mon Jul 16, 2007 at 00:41:41 AM CDT

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This guy's pitch...

...sounds a lot like a Nigerian banking scam.  If it was an email, my spam blocker would have zapped it.

"If the apocalypse comes... beep me." -- Buffy Summers

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by: Kathy @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 14:39:15 PM CDT

Still hillarious

I maintain that this guy has much more studying to do, since he got 268.8 when the maximum possible score is 400 and is split evenly between MA and multistate topics. The bar exam is hard, sure, but if he studied better on the rest he could skip the question on us gays (or write an inflammatory response if an answer were required) and still pass! He certainly forgot a few details about the criteria for frivilous lawsuits. I wonder at this point if he barely failed on purpose so he could make himself a rich li'l martyr. On the other hand, it will be difficult for him to find work as a lawyer afer all this fuss, except at self-proclaimed Christian law firms.

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by: DC @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 14:41:49 PM CDT

Sueing the fishing industry in Maine!

My dream is to become a Fisherman, but I cannot defile my Christian faith simply to pass an examination. I will not pay the price that the Defendants are forcing me to pay in order to practice fishing in Maine. There is no price tag on my faith. It is not for sale. They wanted me to catch LOBSTER! (Leviticus 11:9-12)

Well, and I have to post this link that I found while browsing! It's f*cking hilarious!

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by: rupi3000 @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 17:32:40 PM CDT

Sorry

But in order to PRACTICE law, you need to have a basic UNDERSTANDING of the law.  This dufus obviously doesn't.

Just imagine if this were medicine: 

Question - The patient is experiencing sharp abdominal pain on the right side, nausea, vomiting, fever, etc.

Answer - this is either caused by a small toad living in his gizzard or an imbalance of humors in his body.  Or it could simply be the will of God that he die a horrible death.

Result - Dunne flunks his medical boards.

Action - Dunne complains that 1) his viewpoints are being discriminated against, or 2) his religion is being assailed by common logic.

LOSER!!!!!

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by: Phil @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 17:42:06 PM CDT

Its discrimination against fictional doctors

"Question - The patient is experiencing sharp abdominal pain on the right side, nausea, vomiting, fever, etc.

Answer - this is either caused by a small toad living in his gizzard or an imbalance of humors in his body.  Or it could simply be the will of God that he die a horrible death."

Naaaaaaaaaaaahhh.

The patient overindulged in slippery elm ooze.  Dr. Granny sez so.

Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 22:56:17 PM CDT

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Dunne done drank the Jeziod Kool-Aid

This guy needs to take a powder. I am so sick and tired of the Jeziods' B/S over Queer lives.

This person is just a failed Human Being, and he wants to blame said failure on a minority that has nothing to do with his failure as a student of law. (Must need an excuse for the parents and relatives that financed his failed education.)

 

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by: GentillyGirl @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 10:20:48 AM CDT

WHAT

A

LOSER!!!!!!!!!

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by: oddjob @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 19:27:41 PM CDT

Gone?

I clicked on that link at the top and am just seeing "under construction".  Did he take it down already or was that all that was there? 

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 19:42:26 PM CDT

Guess he couldn't take the heat

or the humiliation. Or, of course, he realized he has no case.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 19:44:19 PM CDT

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