Read: Official Complaint Filed Against Gay-Bashing Attorneys At Thomas More Law Center

Attorneys of the Thomas Law More Center have shamelessly gay-bashed in a Complaint document presented to a Federal Court. Their gay-bashing language subverts the dignity of the Court and appears to be in violation of  the Rules of Professional Conduct and the Rules for Civil Procedure.

See here, and here, for background on the story.

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December 20, 2011

 

State of Michigan

Attorney Grievance Commission

535 Griswold, Suite 1700

Detroit, Michigan 48226

 

This is to request that the Attorney Grievance Commission of the State of Michigan investigate the attorneys:

 

Robert J. Muise, and,

Erin Chau

 

Of

 

THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER
24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive
P.O. Box 393
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Telephone: (734) 827-2001

 

STATEMENT OF FACTS

A Complaint document that Michigan attorneys Muise and Chau have presented to The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan contains language defamatory of homosexuals as a class of people. The case is titled Glowacki v. Howell Public School District.

The defamatory language in the document subverts the dignity of the Court. Additionally, the defamatory language appears to violate Rule 6.5 of the Rules of Professional Conduct for Michigan attorneys. There is, moreover, an appearance that the defamatory language could be in violation of the Rules of Civil Procedure.

Plaintiff Sandra Glowacki alleges that her son Daniel Glowacki’s first amendment rights were violated on Spirit Day, October 20, 2010. Spirit Day is a remembrance of gay American teens lost to bullycide. Glowacki allegedly made a disruptive protest of teacher Jay McDowell’s Spirit Day-themed class presentation. Though McDowell is not alleged to have said anything specific about Glowacki’s religious beliefs, Glowacki alleges an unconditional right to disrupt public school lessons with religious thought, especially where religious thought is condemnatory of all homosexual persons.

Attorneys Muise and Chau have written into the Complaint document – as though it were a legally valid fact – that all homosexuals lead a “destructive lifestyle.”  I ask the Attorney Grievance Commission to note that I am gay, that I am an accomplished novelist and freelance writer, that I have had cover stories on such publications as Opera News and Yacht Vacations magazines, that I have served as an advocate for domestic violence victims, that I am a loving son, brother, nephew, uncle and friend, and that my “lifestyle” may not for legal purposes be described as “destructive.” And, any eventual gay person involved on the Defense side or working inside the Court is being unjustifiably disparaged and vilified by attorneys’ Muise’s and Chau’s defamatory language.

Attorneys Muise and Chau include other defamatory speech in their Complaint document. For example, they refer repeatedly to the Howell Michigan Public Schools’ scientifically-informed approach to discussing homosexuality as “indoctrination,” to which — so they assert — anti-gay Catholic dogma is educationally superior.

A few words are in order as to why it is urgently important that attorneys Muise and Chau not be permitted to subvert the dignity of the Court with their language defamatory of homosexuals. Public confidence nationwide in Michigan officials’ dedication to fundamental fairness towards LGBT Americans is in doubt — these Thomas More Law Center attorneys are, after all, Officers of the Court.  Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, for example, was allowed to carry out a stalking and harassment campaign against a gay student; the time it took for the system to stop Shirvell from tormenting his victim is shocking and disturbing. More recently, Troy, Michigan Mayor Janice Daniels expressed open contempt for gay human beings and their rights. And, on the Thomas More Law Center’s Facebook page, under the post the TMLC administrator made about Glowacki v. Howell Public School District, TMLC “fan” Rhein Krigner wrote:  “That teacher is not a teacher but a person with their own personal agenda. The class room is no place for people like that and should be fired on the spot. You teach that crap to my kids and I will kick your ass and stuff you back in the closet.”

Although Krigner’s hateful remark is in violation of Facebook’s site Terms of Use, the administrator(s) of the Thomas More Law Center have allowed Krigner’s unambiguously gay-bashing comment to remain on the page.

Note in conclusion that the Thomas More Law Center’s namesake Thomas More when Chancellor had people burned at the stake as “heretics” and that during his time, in some parts of Europe, victims were burned at the stake for sodomy.

Sincerely,

Scott Rose

New York City– based novelist and freelance writer Scott Rose’s LGBT– interest by– line has appeared on Advocate .com, PoliticusUSA .com, The New York Blade, Queerty .com, Girlfriends and in numerous additional venues. Among his other interests are the arts, boating and yachting, wine and food, travel, poker and dogs. His “Mr. David Cooper’s Happy Suicide” is about a New York City advertising executive assigned to a condom account.