How to fix law schools

Start in grade schools. That’s where truth starts getting filtered and distorted in curriculum designed to form young minds along a certain ideological agenda.

But Jeffrey Ventrella proposes a fix for the corrupted higher schools of law if we want order to return to the nation’s court system.

At most American law schools you will find a culture that heralds abortion and same-sex “marriage,” mocks Justices Scalia and Thomas, and believes that judges should serve as “superlegislators” and enact liberal policy preferences for the “common good.”
The prospects for Christians in law school are even worse. Christianity is often ridiculed, the religious heritage of the Founders is ignored, and many Christian Legal Society chapters have been harassed or decertified for “discriminating” against non-Christians—that is, for requiring that officers be professing Christians.

So what are conservatives and Christians to do?

For starters, these students need to respectfully counter the liberal, “living Constitution” model provided in American law schools with constitutional theories that are actually consistent with the Founding Fathers and a Christian worldview.

Actually, they need to back up further than that and learn what the Founding Fathers believed and wrote, grounded as it all was on a Christian worldview.

Unfortunately, the grip of secular humanism on our universities affects everything it touches. A Christian law student still drinks from the tainted cup that passes for a legal education. Rather than enjoy the majesty of the Founders’ beliefs, students generally learn little more than the last half-century of Supreme Court decisions that proclaim “rights” to abortion, sodomy, and the shuttering of religion in public. Many law professors barely blink while professing a constitutional right to nude dancing yet proclaim that the free exercise of religion is an outdated concept or one that should remain private. Thus a return to the thoughts of our Founding Fathers and a Christian perspective on law is vital.

Will students at our law schools learn that Thomas Jefferson wrote a guide to the Gospels and attended worship services in U.S. Capitol? That the First Amendment was meant, in part, to protect religion from the state, and not vice versa? Or of the importance of natural law—that laws created by men must abide by a higher law lest they be unjust, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., rightly argued—in the development of our country and Constitution?

They will if questions like these are raised often enough and with the force of consequences to their answers.