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...while most of his famously opinionated peers like to shout loudly about the matters closest to their hearts, when Davey talks about his major interests—theology, God, faith—he brings his voice down to a shy whisper...
...evangelical Christian from working-class Spokane, Washington, it can be hard to fit in at Harvard—even more so at Harvard Law School. At a school dominated by a tiny intellectual elite, Davey represents the rest of America, that portion of America that few people at Harvard—not liberals and not even moderate conservatives—represent. He’s not exactly a NASCAR dad, but he’s close. He’s the kind of guy Pat Robertson would like, and he himself likes Pat Robertson. In many ways, he just doesn?...
...curious when, after less than a semester at HLS, Davey suddenly found himself the school’s public face...
...Davey is not a typical law student for another reason. There is a good chance that in his time at HLS he will read his own name in textbooks, hear about himself in lectures and watch as a case bearing his name becomes a legal landmark. That is because Davey is the plaintiff in “Locke v. Davey,” a church-and-state case currently before the Supreme Court...
...case dates back to his days as a student at Northwest College outside of Seattle, where he was refused a state-funded scholarship there because he was studying pastoral ministry. Davey could have changed his major to a non-religious field, but he chose to stick to his instincts. He contacted the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a conservative law firm founded by Pat Robertson, one that has been called the right-wing answer to the ACLU. “I thought maybe they could just send a letter to the state or something. I didn?...