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Friday, July 18, 2014
What’s Behind Attempts to Block Canada’s Only Christian Law School?
When conservative Christian leaders in America woke up the morning after the Supreme Court ruled abortion to be a constitutional right with its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, they realized their opponent had engineered a legal revolution while they were napping. In the years that followed, a cluster of conservative legal advocacy groups were formed, along with law schools such as Patrick Henry College (Evangelical Protestant) and Ave Maria School of Law (Catholic).
Canada is beset by the same liberal judicial activism as the United States, and now the country’s leading private Evangelical Christian university, Trinity Western in Langley, British Columbia, wants to start a law school with the same game-changing intent as some of its American counterparts. The forces of political correctness—the LGBTQ lobby, in other words—are rallying against TWU, however, throwing concerns about freedom of speech, religion, and conscience to the wind. (more...)
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