Activists are demanding restrictions on the new legal clinic, including restraints on which clients and subject matter it can take, while enjoying more flexibility for their own preferred clinics, such as the new LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic.
In a letter published by The Harvard Law Record earlier this month, gay rights organization Lambda blasted Dean John Manning for ignoring their objections to a religious freedom clinic after he floated the proposal with a curriculum committee in October.
Lambda leaders said they wrote a letter to him in November “seeking a guarantee that the clinic would not weaponize ‘religious freedom’ to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people or jeopardize reproductive justice.”...
