Dent Link Again

[David Cruz]

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: religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu
[mailto:religionlaw-bounces at lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Sanders
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:44 PM
To: religionlaw at 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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