[nickcarraway]

Big Business made the difference in gay marriage. Big business is pushing most of the left’s agenda.

[Oliviaforever]

The system is broken when some causes are unable to secure council.

[a fool in paradise]

How can these professionals deny service to religious people???

[Dilbert San Diego]

The fix is in on homosexual marriage. And part of that is that law firms know they will be blacklisted, if they defend traditional marriage.,

Even though there is a case to be made for traditional marriage, firms don’t want to touch this due to political correctness, and concerns about future business. Homosexuals and liberals will have long memories about who was with them and who was against them.

[Fungi]

It’s the morality involved. No firm wants to resort to the Bible as the final arbiter of moral justice in this case. Too hot to handle. Spineless whimps.

[Joe 6-pack]

Of course no big law firm is opposing gay marriage. In their eyes gay marriage = gay divorce = more attorney fees.

[RginTN]

Top liberal lawfirms won’t go there but Top Conservative lawfirms will defend what the liberals won’t

[BipolarBob]

They’re just following the lead of Milton, Chadwick & Waters on this case. If that law firm won’t do it, no other Big Law Firms will either.

[Gay State Conservative]

Of course they won't...imagine all the cocktail they'd miss if they took the case.

[Viennacon]

Its weird, but I think I’ve lost faith in this entire system. We’d have been better off under a Christian monarch. Sorry, George, you got a bad rap.

[Salman]

There's less to this story than meets the eye.

It's not as if the big New York law firms are the only competent lawyers around.

[Iron Munro]

They know Obama will bring the federal government Jack Boot down on them hard if they fight his homosexual agenda.

They don’t want to have the IRS, the DOJ and every other alphabet agency stomping them into oblivion.

[ConorMacNessa]

American Bar Association Model Rule 6.2 - Accepting appointments:

A lawyer shall not seek to avoid appointment by a tribunal to represent a person except for good cause, such as:

(c) the client or the cause is so repugnant to the lawyer as to be likely to impair the client-lawyer relationship or the lawyer's ability to represent the client.

This rule, which only covers Court appointments, is much weaker than the provisions of the Code of Professional Responsibility that was in force when I began practicing law four decades ago.

Under the provisions of the old Code, there was both a black letter rule requiring attorneys not to refuse employment for unpopular or repugnant clients or causes, and a series of "Ethical Considerations" - aspirational statements regarding an attorney's duty to take on causes that would cause them to incur general opprobrium and anathema.

Fortunately, a few public interest law groups stand up for conservative causes, including traditional marriage. As for the silk-stocking law-firms, they have no moral compass, no ethos but materialism, no measure but the bottom line.

This is not the legal profession that I sought to enter those many years ago.

"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre / mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
"Thought must be the harder, heart be the keener / mind must be the greater, as our might lessens."

[DoodleDawg]

The stacks of Supreme Court briefs filed on both sides of the same-sex marriage cases to be heard this month are roughly the same height. But they are nonetheless lopsided: There are no major law firms urging the justices to rule against gay marriage.

I saw a movie last night where a single lawyer without a big name firm behind him took on the country of Austria and won. So the name doesn't matter. It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

[Regal]

Paging Ted Cruz!!!!!!

[familyop]

Bar associations pushed in favor of the divorce/cohabitation paradigm. The future consequences of that were obvious back then to the non-criminal minority.

[hapnHal]

What is the purpose for marriage?

The purpose of marriage is ultimately to glorify God since He tells us He made us for His glory (Isaiah 43:7). Marriage is the covenant union of a man and a woman for the purpose of committing to each other in companionship, provision of food and shelter, sexual privileges, children, and protection.

Homosexuals “do not” have children nor do they procreate.

[SoFloFreeper]

Pretty pathetic.

Of course, you can always give to

http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/

Contributions are tax deductible.

[Albion Wilde]

As propaganda goes, this article plumbs new depths.

[yldstrk]

They told us in law school you are not to shy away from unpopular causes.