Yeah, they were so busy getting drunk that they forgot to change the name!
BTW, you're a lawyer; I wondered what you think of Law Students Against Representation:
It turns out the military isn't the only organization whose law school recruitment efforts activists have targeted. The Boston Globe reports:
When word spread at Harvard Law School last month that one of the most successful recruiters of its graduates, Ropes & Gray, was helping Catholic Charities explore ways to prevent same-sex couples from adopting children, gay and lesbian students wanted to stop the law firm it [sic] its tracks.There were "people who were upset and people who were very upset," said Brad Rosen, a first-year student and board member of Lambda, the school's group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.
A Lambda representative wound up meeting with Ropes's managing partner and others at the firm and expressing the students' unhappiness.
Two weeks ago, Ropes said it would no longer do legal work to assist the bishops in their efforts to stop gay adoptions, and last week Catholic Charities said it would end its adoption program because it could not reconcile church doctrine, which holds that gay adoptions are "gravely immoral," with state antidiscrimination laws.
It's unclear what impact, if any, Harvard's students had in Ropes's decision, although they are among the country's most sought-after law graduates.
It's one thing for Harvard to object when an organization discriminates in hiring, but the complaint about Ropes & Gray goes against one of the most basic premises of the law: that lawyers are not responsible for the actions of their clients, and that everyone is entitled to seek legal representation. Even if the Catholic Church is invidiously discriminating against gays, the law firm is no more responsible for this than a serial killer's lawyer is for the former's crimes.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!