[V]ery well educated conservatives rarely fit the public stereotypes assigned to them. While very high educations tend to make liberals more consistently liberal, very high educations tend to make conservatives less consistently conservative (and thus less extreme) on social issues....
This is a bit like highly educated bloggers: while supposedly "conservative" bloggers might support Bush's court nomineees and the War on Terror, such "conservatives" often take the liberal side on some issues, such as perhaps abortion rights, gay rights, assisted suicide, and stem-cell research, and they might also believe in evolution, oppose mandatory school prayer, or favor the right to burn flags. Such a diversity of views among the highly educated left is much more rare.
Lindgren phrases his observation in terms of the right being more diverse than the left. But another way to put it is to say that the highly educated usually reject social conservatism. The position on national security is then arrived at as a separate matter.
A very incisive comment.
But it didn't pick up another aspect of things, namely, that lawyers have a professional obligation, sometimes imposed by law, to do pro bono work.
I'd like to know more about the circumstances of the referral. And, believe it or not, it is professionally stimulating to represent folks whose views a lawyer doesn't share.
It's absolutely no big deal for me, but I suspect the evangelicals are going to go nuts. |
