Posted on 08/21/2009 3:15:18 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Her main adversary in the hiring process was a professor who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun at the time Justice Blackmun wrote the now infamous Roe v. Wade decision, a professor who has since written in favor of abortion and has written laudatory tributes in Blackmun’s honor.
As a consequence of being black-balled – despite impeccable credentials, including graduating “with distinction” from the Iowa College of Law and experience teaching writing at George Mason School of Law - she was passed over in favor of a candidate who not only had no prior law school teaching experience, but had never even practiced law, had no published works, and openly admitted he was not qualified for the job. His primary qualification for the post seems to be that he dislikes conservatives and “hates” Republicans and “right-wingers.”
Unsurprisingly, he lasted just two semesters, while Ms. Wagner was told not even to think about applying again for an open position. Her faith and conservative social convictions were enough for this law school to permanently trash her First Amendment rights to freedom of religion, speech and association. No wonder a radically compromised Iowa Supreme Court – with nary a Republican on the bench – imposed gay marriage on the Hawkeye State through judicial fiat.
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midwest ping?
Interesting ~ sounds like a lot of the Nazis escaped to Iowa after the war.
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20090627/OPINION02/108050001
“Iowa needs more intellectually diverse universities”
http://al007italia.blogspot.com/2009/08/as-iowa-boy-this-doesnt-surprize-me-in.html
“As an Iowa Boy This Doesn't Surprize Me In Any Way Shape or Form”
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