To those of you concerned about the future of our legal system ...

A very important address was given recently before some undergraduate counselors from some Northeastern law schools on the "collision course with democratic order and social unity" that the Religious Right has put our republic.

An excerpt:

"Dean David Rudenstine, himself a political activist in the 1960s as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union and like-minded groups, further suggested that U.S. jurisprudence and legal education were "very much on the defensive," in part because strict secularism as a legal paradigm is seen by the faithful -- including some at Christian law schools -- as an insufficient context for policy issues such as abortion rights, homosexual marriage, stem-cell research and Darwin's theory of evolution.

"Rudenstine said that America's law schools have a social responsibility, especially at a time of religious fundamentalism, to foster reasoned debate over the facts and science of such controversial matters. To shirk this role, he suggested, would be to leave the way clear for faith-based organizations to impose "divisive" views. "

(emphasis added)

The reaction to this speech was not exactly what you might have hoped.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1119875749550

It's all about governing behavior among humans, which is unpredictable at best, violent and greedy at worst. The law is the same as the scum it attempts to regulate; sometimes lucky, sometimes corrupt and result oriented.

Gyre