Christian Law Schools=Crap Factories

The Malcontent previously addressed the creation of right-wing christian law schools, and now the New York Times is adding to the noise.

What the Times fails to address is how hard it is for these schools to get American Bar Association accreditation, in part because the school fail to supply a basic legal education, jamming up their students heads with their "natural law" and Ten Commandments crapola.

Regent University's holy-rolling law school, for example, took over 10 years to get accreditation. As the ABA points out

Once a school has obtained provisional approval, it remains in provisional status for at least three years. Unless extraordinary circumstances justify an extension, a school may not remain in provisional status for more than five years.

Regent's took twice as long as the typical upper limit. The Lord sure works in mysterious ways.

Also noticably missing in the Time's coverage is a sense of how these schools, their professors and their approach to legal fundamentals are really off-the-wall and completely beyond the bounds of reasonable legal thinking. Their overt attempts to read and insert a specific religious ideology into legal thinking, court decisions and other structures of the law is an affront to the Constitution of the United States, and to all of us who hold dear the separation of church and state.