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...Behind the podium where assistant professor Lynne Marie Kohm stands, a sign on the blackboard advertises a bar-exam cram course. But the discussion of the topic at hand, divorce, is not limited to the standard legalisms of family law-custody, property, visitation. Instead, the students here at the Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, return, again and again, to the spiritual consequences for parents and children. "We can act as healers," one student points out. Kohm agrees, then adds, "One of the things we can do as Christ's attorneys is be the guardian ad litem...
...state. Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, which involves the denial of student-activity funds to Wide Awake, a Christian magazine, attracted a slew of amicus briefs on both sides. One of those supporting Ronald Rosenberger and his fellow Christian students was filed by a legal foundation, housed at Regent Law School, called the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ. It is one of a rapidly growing network of Christian legal organizations around the country that have adopted the techniques of liberal activism developed by such groups as the ACLU and the naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund...
...Regent Law School, which opened in 1987, is the largest. This year a crop of 335 students is being trained in what the catalog describes as "God's perspective on law"-an informal mix of traditional scholarship, Bible study and evangelical strategy. Regent students may not be getting the best legal education available-the percentage of the school's students who passed the July 1994 Virginia bar exam was the lowest in the state, and the institution is still only provisionally accredited by the American Bar Association-but they are receiving training that Robertson believes is essential. Himself...
...just want to see a level playing field for people of all faiths," says Robertson, whose own ACLJ sports the motto "To defend the rights of believers." The handsome suite of 20 ACLJ offices, in the new Regent Law School building dedicated by Dan Quayle in 1994, looks like any other prosperous law firm, with leather couches and Daumier prints. The desk of ACLJ's executive director, Keith Fournier, bears a sign that reads FAITHFULNESS NOT SUCCESS, yet the center's chief council, Jay Sekulow, has gone an impressive three for three arguing religious-speech cases before the Supreme Court...
Moreover, the new Christian law, as taught at Regent University can fall far outside the mainstream. The heavily footnoted articles in the Regent University Law Review cite Scripture as well as legal precedent. And one of them, at least, crossed the line between legal and criminal opinion. In 1994 ACLJ lawyer Michael Hirsh, who was representing antiabortion activist Paul Hill in an abortion-protest case, submitted an article to the review that justified killing abortion doctors. The piece was approved and scheduled for publication--until the day Hill murdered two people outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article...