As incompetent as the law graduates from Pat Robertson's

[shraby]

college appear to be, I've been wondering exactly what they are taught there? Are they only prepared to pass a bar exam and don't learn anything else? What made me think about it is the way many children in school are taught to pass the tests for the NCLB program.

[liberal N proud]

1. Prayer and force the 10 commandments upon the people

They were instilled with the right wing christofacist mentality and taught to make every case about religious persecution.

[havocmom]

2. Seems unlikely any courses in ethics are stressed. (n/t)

[Richard Steele]

3. They are taught how to PRETEND to be college graduates....

...once they leave the school and spend their lives
surreptitiously working to overthrow the US Government
and install a "Robertsonian" fundamentalist theocracy.

Sounds a bit much when it's spelled out so simply, I know...
but that's really what it comes down to.

[ThomCat]

4. Never underestimate the power of social theory.

If everything they learn has been within a specific theoretical context (the goals of the religious right) then they're likely to be pretty useless outside of that context. A whole lot of what we learn and know is context dependent.

[Erika]

5. They are taught how to defend the evangelical Christian view

and not the Constitution. Yes, really.

[Zynx]

6. 60% of Goodling's class failed the Virginia bar exam.

[EVDebs]

9. Their attorneys all have fools for clients ! nt

[EVDebs]

7. Unquestioning OBEDIENCE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

The lack of questioning der Fuerher leads around 30% of the population, and these blind followers, to administer the most heinous of crimes against their fellow human beings.

[kiahzero]

8. Sadly, no

The main focus of most law schools is helping students figure out sound methods of understanding the law. Regent, on the other hand, inculcates how to make legal-sounding arguments that are driven by the school's religious agenda. The arguments don't have to be coherent with one another, because the goal isn't to develop a coherent legal doctrine, it's to develop a legal doctrine that mimics the results one would achieve with a religious doctrine.

[DCKit]

10. As Bill Maher said, they only have to study one book

And Monica Goodling has hired a "real" lawyer to defend here. Enough said? I think so.

[LaStrega]

11. this thread brings to mind ...

this article:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707G.shtml

that's some scary shit

even scarier than Ann Coulter }(

[newyawker99]

12. Hi LaStrega!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[myrna minx]

13. Welcome to DU LaStrega.

:hi: