Falwell saw law school as tool to alter society

[Joanne98]

LYNCHBURG, Va. -- Some may have found it curious when Rev. Jerry Falwell's new Liberty University School of Law recently unveiled a $1 million teaching courtroom featuring exact-to-the-inch replicas of the U.S. Supreme Court bench and the lectern and counsel tables facing it. But Liberty faculty and students understood perfectly: Falwell intended his students to be well prepared to argue before and, ultimately, to serve on the highest court in the land.

Falwell, the prominent televangelist and father of the Moral Majority who founded Liberty University in 1971, died less than a week before the school granted its first law degrees to 50 graduates on Saturday. But his dream of "training a new generation of lawyers, judges, educators, policymakers and world leaders in law from the perspective of an explicitly Christian worldview" remains very much alive.

And that's true not just at Liberty, with its evangelical Baptist heritage, but at a growing number of conservative Christian law schools, such as the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Mich., which graduated its first class in 2003; the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, which graduated its first class in 2004; and Barry University School of Law in Orlando, founded in 1999 -- all Catholic schools. Televangelist Pat Robertson's 21-year-old evangelical Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va., was one of the first of this new wave of schools, while Liberty is the youngest. All of them are either fully or provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association.

"It's a really good and healthy development in legal education," said John Garvey, dean of the Boston College Law School, a Jesuit school, and president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools.
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[MidwestTransplant]

1. By getting a bunch of idiots in senior positions at the DOJ

[Demeter]

2. New! Improved! Organic! Means as Much in Law as It Does in Grocery Stores

advertising. selling the sizzle without any steak behind it.

[Cobalt-60]

3. they bear the mark of a doomed herd

They would have done better by stealth.
Now we know who the fascists are by their brand.

[tom_paine]

4. How else would a Christofascist see it?

Totalitarians desire to control ALL aspects of a society.

ALL.

[Zynx]

5. University of St. Thomas and Barry are legitimate, established colleges.

St. Thomas - 1885
Barry - 1940, became university 1981.

The law schools may be new, but these are real institutions. It's an unnecessary cheap shot to lump them in with Regent and Liberty to make some editorial point.