Falwell's School Joins Others in Teaching Law to Their Flocks

Yahoo News ^ | November 22, 2004 | Emma Schwartz

[valkyrieanne]

LYNCHBURG, Va. — What Debra Meador read disturbed her. It didn't seem right that schoolchildren were once barred from holding prayer groups after class. Or that the Ten Commandments couldn't be displayed in a government building.

So at 34, the human relations specialist from Lynchburg made good on a longtime interest by enrolling in law school. But unlike most prospective lawyers, she applied to only one place.

"I wanted to take it in a Christian setting," said Meador, a member of the inaugural law class at Liberty University, a Baptist college founded here in 1971 by the Rev. Jerry Falwell. "I don't believe anyone could be neutral. We're willing to tell you what we believe and to follow that."

[valkyrieanne]

This is precisely what more conservatives, Christian or otherwise, need to do. Even though we might have won in the recent election, the universities and professional schools are still firmly-occupied "enemy territory." Reclaiming the professions should be top on the list of conservative activists.

[Moose4]

This should be interesting. I grew up in Lynchburg, and LU is a pretty decent school on its own merits in a lot of areas. Their program in education went through a huge kerfuffle with the Commonwealth of Virginia a while back, because their ed majors were being taught from a Biblical viewpoint (intelligent design) and the ACLU, etc., didn't want those grads certified to teach science.

}:-)4

[EdReform]

Reclaiming the professions should be top on the list of conservative activists.

Agreed. For those who are unable to go back to school, consider supporting financially the following organizations.

Alliance Defense Fund - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org

The ADF has internships and educational and scholarship programs available, such as:

National Litigation Academy®

The Blackstone Fellowship® Legal Internship

William Pew Religious Freedom Scholarship

Also:

American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org

Thomas More Law Center - http://www.thomasmore.org

The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/

[DocH]

Now if Jerry would just open a school of journalism, along with the law school, we might eventually be able to "STOMP OUT & GET RID OF" (this quote from the School of Redundancy) what power liberal scumbags have over our lives.

[Getready]

Actually, it would be nice to have a superuniversity where
a number of Conservative private universities get together
and share resources. I for one would like to see that. But
we don't want to be like the "tolerant" liberals who
literally smash you down if you don't agree with them, even
if many of their reasons are emotional and or ill-informed.

[ccmay]

I'm a bit torn. Seems to me that this country needs more new lawyers about as much as it needs a new strain of the clap. But if they are to be trained, I would rather see them minted by a Christian university, with an eye to undoing the damage their piratical colleagues have inflicted on American society.

-ccm

[xjcsa]

xjcsa...B.S., Liberty University, 1997.

[MeekOneGOP]

bump!