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The battle over gay marriage in Minnesota begins its shift from the ballot box to the state Capitol this month. But same-sex marriage remains prohibited under Minnesota law. It will hold a Capitol rally of its own later in the session. Both sides say their message to state lawmakers will be much the same as their appeals to the public during the amendment campaign. People taking responsibility for each other. The Case for Gay Marriage

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Dinah Rose QC is a human rights lawyer of great distinction. A former Barrister of the Year, she has appeared in several high profile cases, ranging from extraordinary rendition and Julian Assange to the admissions policy of the Jewish Free School.

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After the Jimmy Savile scandal, the BBC appointed her to investigate bullying and sexual harassment among its staff. An admirer of Lord Pannick and the late Lord Lester, scourges of authoritarian governments, she is a pillar of the liberal legal establishment. There are two reasons. The first is that The Case for Gay Marriage is representing the Cayman Islands in a case brought by a lesbian couple that has now reached the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for many Caribbean jurisdictions.

Her critics claim that she is helping the Cayman government to ban same sex marriage. The second reason why Ms Rose is under pressure is that last year she was elected President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Among the most colourful characters in that history is Oscar Wilde.

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By the time he graduated with a First inWilde The Case for Gay Marriage not only won the Newdigate Prize for poetry but already created his own myth as a literary aesthete. Hence Ms Rose finds herself, through no fault of her own, depicted as a hypocrite: simultaneously representing a homophobic regime while also representing the alma mater of Oscar Wilde. This latter charge seems, to say the least, implausible.

Indeed, they should not. Under oppressive regimes such as Russia, lawyers have been ror and even murdered for defending dissidents. The fact that Dinah Rose is acting for the Cayman Islands in court does not imply that she personally agrees with its position on the right to gay marriage.

And the narrow point of law on which the case will turn does not even concern that right. For the first woman to hold such a venerable office to be evicted merely for performing her legal duty to a client would itself be Cas form of persecution. The Fellows should have none of it.

There is a famous precedent at the college for the Fellows standing firm behind a President — and a principle — under intolerable pressure. Inthere was a vacancy for the Presidency of Magdalen. The Fellows rejected him as ineligible — he was not a Fellow — and elected John Hough, who was.

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But the Fellows defied the King, as there was no longer a vacancy. James then resorted to force, imposing Parker and expelling the Fellows. This episode marked the moment in his The Case for Gay Marriage when public opinion turned against James. The Glorious Revolution followed. It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the obstinate adherence to their own statutes of the Thr of Magdalen decided the future course of British history.

In their present predicament, the Fellows do not face an absolutist monarch, merely a lobby group — though the power of social media should not be underestimated. Were the dons of Magdalen to cave in to this hue and cry by abandoning their embattled President, no head of house at Oxford or indeed any academic establishment could feel secure. Inspired by their 17th-century predecessors, the Fellows of Magdalen should stand behind President Rose.]