Wardle is Back!

A few years ago, I wrote a post examining and critiquing an anti-gay law review article by Professor Lynn Wardle of BYU. I'd like to think it was one of my better pieces of work. Although Wardle had a few legitimate points about the state of the methodological research, many of his objections were just bad -- most particularly in his incessant comparison of gay relationships to adultery. It made for an overall poor piece of scholarship.

In any event, the North Dakota Law Review just hosted a symposium focusing on gay marriage, and, unfortunately, basically all the attendees were virulently opposed. And who was among the writers? Professor Wardle. Which, by itself, isn't worthy of note. But the Fargo Forum gives a little peek about what Wardle's article said:

In ... "The Attack on Marriage As the Union of a Man and a Woman," author Lynn D. Wardle compares himself and his defense of traditional marriage to a Hungarian Jew who warned Elie Wiesel's hometown of the coming Nazi Holocaust. Wardle is a professor at Brigham Young University.

Yikes. Seems like ridiculous analogies are still paying off for radical right academics.