Sure thing, David.  The Dent paper looks to me like crap, not a piece of
scholarship.  

Wasn't sure if you remembered, but we've met a couple of times at
conferences and such.  I competed in the Williams Project moot court two
years ago, and I saw you at Lav Law this past fall.

Thanks for the note,

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:religionlaw-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cruz
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:01 PM
> To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics
> Subject: RE: Dent Link Again
> 
> Dear Mr. Sanders:
> 
> Thank you for calling Dent out on this.  Let us hope he corrects his
> falsehoods before hard copy publication somewhere.  (Professor now Judge
> Michael McConnell failed to do so even after I had immediately cited him
> to Badgett when he circulated a draft chapter for an anthology.)
> 
> Sincerely yours,
> 
> David B. Cruz
> Professor of Law
> University of Southern California Gould School of Law
> Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071
> U.S.A.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Sanders
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu
> Subject: Re: Dent Link Again
> 
> Two pages into this obviously tendentious piece of "research," one
> spots a tellingly flawed premise:  "The goal of the gay movement are
> [sic] not primarily economic; most gays already have above-average
> incomes."
> 
> The cite for this old canard is a 12-year-old article in the Notre Dame
> Law Review.  Much more recent and readily accessible work would have
> saved Dent from such carelessness.  See, e.g., M. Lee Badgett, Money,
> Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men
> (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
> 
> Steve Sanders
> Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw LLP
> Chicago
> 
> 
> 
> 
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