[Publib] Money Talks, Principles Walk

[Backwage at aol.com]

Well, it was getting rather civilized around here, nobody had used the  
perjorative 'Nazi' for a day or so, so I figured it was a good thing that this  
article came out in the NY Times:
 
 
"NEW HAVEN, Sept. 30 — 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." 
Mind you, what the Yale folk are trying to prevent is their law school  
kiddies going into something like the JAG Corps.  It's really rather a  joke; since 
there is virtually no chance that any Yale undergrad would  go into the 
enlisted ranks, they've got to raise hell about  something.  And oh, what a life of 
degradation and suffering it must be to  be a military attorney.  Think of 
the paper cuts out in the field.   
You will notice that Yale's stand on this issue--ostensibly based on  
gay/lesbian discrimination basis but extant prior to that on a number of other  
pretexts--was in the end shaped by the bottom line:  their principles  melted when 
it was realized that they'd lose income.  How much would they  have sold out, 
say, African-Americans for? 
M. McGrorty



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