They virus has spread from California! Close the borders now!!!...........
Yes, our Supreme Court tried to do the same thing to us a few years ago, prohibiting attorney membership in any organization that discriminated on the basis of the laundry list. It effectively would have barred Roman Catholics from the bar (since no women priests), and other Christians (no discrimination against homosexuals). A number of us threatened to file a civil rights suit against the Court and Bar Association and they backed down.
But that was 15 years ago. I’ve been expecting the same thing to pop up again in another guise.
“If they go ahead with this curtailing of our rights, there will be plenty of lawsuits, and rightly so.”
And a lot of those lawsuits will be coming from gay rights people who demand every attorney handle their marital orcivil union cases, their all-too-prevalent domestic battery cases, their property split arguments, adoption demands and discrimination suits. And if you refuse to take the case, look for a lawsuit.
I hate to say it, but it serves lawyers right. They had no business having such a thing as the bar (i.e. a closed shop) in the first place.
I'm not sure where this guy is getting the idea that this would violate a lawyer's 1st Amendment rights. All this provision says is that you will put in the same professional effort for a gay client as you would a straight client. Unless there is some provision in the AZ ethical rules or AZ law that requires you to take on gay clients, there is nothing here that would force you to have gay clients to begin with. But, if you take a gay client on in a drunk driving case or whatever, you can't give them a lower level of service due to their sexual orientation.
No, but they'll force us to allow the murder of babies in the womb. Is part of the ritual, while repeating above words, to have them cut off too?