{"article":{"id":20416,"heading":"Falwell Email Touts New Theocratic Law School","author":"buzzflash","created":"2002-10-22 01:33:01","modified":"2002-10-22 13:06:23","last_modified":"Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:06:23","article":"

RWWATCH - October 15, 2002

[Thanks to Buzzflash.com for the following news about

a new law school that is geared to mix religion with

law. Generally, submissions to RWWATCH should include

citations for interesting facts, so I did some research

to located a citation for the $500,000 federal grant

to a group affiliated with Pat Robertson. The citation

is in the Washington Post, October 2, 2002:

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A35217-2002Oct2.html<\/a>

Secondly, are any of you subscribed to an email list

that provides well-researched alerts about the Right

Wing? If you are on such a list, and you would like to

sign up to forward occasional articles to the RWWATCH

editors, please email me as the editors cannot monitor

more than 4 or 5 lists on our own.

-rich ]



October 15, 2002

http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/buzzscripts\/buzz.dll\/content<\/a>

Not long ago, in an underreported speech, Justice Antonin

\"The Fixer\" Scalia spoke about how the Constitution was

derived from God, and, therefore, in essence, God was

sometimes to be factored into Supreme court decisions.

Scalia, a member of a powerful conservative Catholic sect

called Opus Dei, was merely reconfirming the Bush Cartel

commitment to governing America not through laws, but

through laws interpreted through a theocratic prism. Just

ask John Ashcroft, who regularly anoints himself, and has

repeatedly declared that God is the King of America.

With all the right wing judges sitting on America's courts,

you would think there would be enough of them to meet the

Stepford-like loyalty oath to God-before-democracy required

by the Bush Administration.

But apparently, there must be a shortage of judges hot-wired

to heaven, because Jerry Falwell is opening a law school to

create a sort of farm league for the God Squad judiciary.

In his most recent \"Falwell Confidential\" e-mail alert,

Jerry breathlessly announces. (BuzzFlash is not making this

up. This is an actual Falwell e-mail alert sent out on

October 11th):



\"FROM: Jerry Falwell

Liberty University to Initiate School of Law Next Year

In my writings for \"Falwell Confidential,\" I try to remain

focused on the pertinent issues of the day. However, I am so

excited about a new endeavor here at Liberty University, I

decided to use this edition to share an important

announcement with my weekly readers.

Since I founded Liberty University in 1971, I have

envisioned that our first professional school would be a

school of law. On October 8, my dream was realized. On that

day, the Liberty University Board of Trustees officially

approved the formation of the Liberty University School of

Law and commissioned our president, John M. Borek Jr., to

take the necessary steps to begin classes in the 2003 fall

semester. Needless to say, I am excited beyond words about

this bold move that I believe will ultimately have a

nationwide impact.

Liberty University's School of Law will employ professors

who are: committed to the inspiration and infallibility of

the Bible; committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ;

committed to a strict constructionist view of the U.S.

Constitution; committed to training godly attorneys for the

law profession, for service in American government or as

judges and justices. Our law school, like Liberty

University, will recruit students who have a desire to

impact our nation and the world for our Savior.

In a nation that, in one generation, has legalized abortion

on demand, removed prayer and Bible reading from our schools

and more recently attempted to outlaw the Pledge of

Allegiance because of the words \"under God,\" it is high time

that we create a law school that will produce men and women

who are committed to the Judeo-Christian ethic, the

preciousness of human life and the defense of the

Judeo-Christian values that formed this great nation.

In recent years, we have witnessed an acceleration of

discrimination and persecution against people of faith in

the workplace and in our nation's public schools. The

Liberty University School of Law will intently focus on

training attorneys who will aggressively defend the

religious rights of people of faith in this nation. I

envision our graduates going forth to win many important

battles against the anti-religious zealots at the American

Civil Liberties Union.

In the past, our pre-law students have gone on from Liberty

to the great law schools of America. My son, Jerry Falwell

Jr., attended the University of Virginia School of Law and

is today chief counsel of Liberty University. David Gibbs

III went out from Liberty to the Duke University School of

Law and today he and his father lead the very influential

Christian Law Association. Many other Liberty graduates are

now making an impact in the legal world after earning their

law degrees in a variety of institutions. Now we will have

the opportunity to train future conservative lawyers right

here at Liberty!

As you can see, we are prepared to make a momentous impact

on our nation very quickly. I request that readers keep

Liberty University in your prayers. I truly believe that we

are training future generations of conservative warriors who

will dramatically impact our culture.

I encourage my \"Falwell Confidential\" friends to pray for

Liberty University's leadership as we provide guidance and

direction for God's University.\"



There you have it. In no time at all, Jerry Falwell will be

producing little Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist clones

in his Liberty University Law School laboratory.

Of course, BuzzFlash is amazed that Mr. Falwell (we can't

bring ourselves to call the charlatan Reverend) has the time

to embark upon an enterprise of this magnitude. After all,

he has been so busy inciting the Moslem world by calling the

founder of their religion a \"terrorist.\" I mean, when one

man can provoke riots in Islamic countries, without a word

of chastisement coming from the White House, you would think

he might be a bit preoccupied. But not our Jerry!

The next step, BuzzFlash kids you not, will be Jerry

obtaining \"faith-based funding\" (AKA religious pork) from

his good friend Mr. Bush. Yes, those will be our taxpayer

dollars going to support a flim-flam bigoted preacher. Heck,

Pat Robertson has already gotten $500,000 of our money

through a Bush Cartel \"faith-based\" grant. And we thought

these guys were supposed to be on the outs with the White

House after they suggested that gays and the \"moral decay\"

of America were responsible for the September 11th terrorist

attack. Silly us!

So, in a few years, if the Bush regime establishes permanent

rule over America, expect to see Liberty School Law School

graduates on the Supreme Court bench. You'll know them

because they will be the ones with antennas protruding from

their heads, so as better to receive ruling instructions

from God -- or maybe it will be Karl Rove at the other end

of the line.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS



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