150 Graduates of Pat Robertson's College in Bush Administration
The school was founded in 1986 as the CBN University Law School. The American Bar Association (ABA) denied accreditation in 1987. It gave the school provisional accreditation in 1989. Full accreditation by the ABA didn't occur until 1996.
The fact that 150 grads of the illustrious Regent law school being in the Bush Administration came to widespread light because of Monica Goodling. The Regent grad 1999 quit the Justice Department last week. Just a few days after she had refused to testify before Congress by pleading the Fifth Amendment. She had virtually no prosecutor experience before landing a job at the top levels of the Justice Department. She served as Justice liaison for the White House and was deeply involved with evaluating the nation's federal prosecutors. It is the handling of the firings of several prosecutors which has led to the controversy that will most likely cost Attorney General Alberto Gonzales his job.
The law school at Regent University was once ranked in the lowest tier by U.S. News and World Reports college survey. On its own website's admissions page, Regent states that it seeks to admit "students who are serious about the critical roles they will assume as future counselors, conciliators, defenders of the faith, effective client advocates and followers of Christ." Later it adds "Regent Law seeks men and women who are dedicated to becoming Christian leaders who will change the world for Christ." I would think that a law school might say that it hopes its students become good interpreters of the law, or defenders of the Constitution, or something along those lines. But the Princeton Review did at one time rank the school second in the nation in the likelihood that graduates would receive a fellowship at a conservative think tank!
The website of Regent Law tells of an upcoming symposium to "Celebrate 400th anniversary of Jamestown settlement." A keynote speaker is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Another is Deputy U.S. Attorney General Paul McNulty. Topics include "Liberty, the Rule of Rule of Law, and religion today." I doubt they will be discussing the need for a separation of church and state.
Regent is a televangelist founded school, started by the infamous Pat Robertson. The idea is for graduates to be the agents of change in America. They think of the big issues are abortion, stem cell research, and gay marriage. Driving an agenda instead of focusing on the law. They are training people to make arguments based on the bible to push the far right agenda of hate, exclusion and corporate war for god and country.
One of the faculty support pages on website quotes Ephesians 6, 6-7 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ, doing the will of god from your heart. Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the lord, not men. Good advice for a preacher, not so much for government lawyers. So, is the Bush Administration hiring the best legal minds the country can offer, or attorneys that can help with the Christo-Fascist agenda?
Sources: MSNBC's Countdown with Kieth Olbermann, www.regent.edu
Published by Jeff Musall - Featured Contributor in Sports
Jeff Musall has a passion for writing, a knack for frank and informed expression, and a desire to engage the minds of readers. His work has been featured in newspapers, magazines, and various online venues... View profile
- Rhetorical Use of Fear by the Bush Administration Rhetoric is important in selling anything to a public. The Bush administration used fear to pursuade the American public to support its Iraq War policy.
- D.S. On the Down Low I began to wonder if the Lord had spoken to Pat Robertson about this last night. Maybe, the Lord, afraid that Mitt Romney might actually be the anti-Christ, decided to go ahead and tell Pat to throw his lunch money b...
- The Rise of the Christian Right in Politics A brief overview of Pat Robertson's stunning 1988 presidential campaign and its contribution to the rise of evangelical Christians in American politics.
-
I Don't like the Feeling in My Gut
The Rev. Pat Robertson's words weigh heavily on the author while they draw mockery and scorn from blogs
- What Good is the Christian Right Wing Doing? It's a shame that right-wing also seems to mean born-again Christian. Is religious freedom, and freedom to think what one want's, being obliterated?
- Pat Robertson: Homicidal Geriatric or Cindy Sheehan in a Tie?
- Pat Robertson: American Christian Extremist
- Laura Ingraham on Pat Robertson and Rudy Giuliani
- Pat Robertson, What Are You Thinking?
- Pat Robertson Predicts Deadly Attack in USA in 2007
- Pat Robertson: Talking with God
- Pat Roberston
|
|
- Sound hiring practices, or promoting an agenda?
- Belief is no substitute for competence.
46 Comments
Post a CommentI hope people realize that the mission statement of this college is undemocratic, that is, it expects graduates to use government and law to further a particular religious view over a religiously diverse population. Clearly unConstitutional and undemocratic.
Pat Robertson is a douche bag
This is just plain insanity.
Very interesting read. Well done. I didn't know this! But it's not surprising.
Boy I tell you what, if a ceo or president of a corporation ran their office the way this absolutely pitiful excuse for a political candidate, much less Governor or President, has ran his office, the board would have tossed him out on his ear four years ago.With the entire administration abandoning him, I'm no longer sure who is pulling his strings. Does anyone have a clue who is running this country. It just about has to be the Pentagon,right? Someone wanted him in power so they could achieve whatever agenda was planned. Who? Was it planned just to get gasoline prices raised? All I hear is big oil just cares about profit margin. Their profit margin has stayed around the same as before the prices went up. I guess. Unless that is a lie too. So who is the puppeteer in this fiasco?
Regent University corrects an inaccuracy?
As late as 6 April, 2007, Regent University's "facts" web page proudly boasted that they had:
"150 graduates serving in the Bush Administration."
Between April 6 and April 13, the University removed that statement from their web site and, for at least several days, (April 13-16) there was no statement listed at all about any Regent U. graduates working for the Bush administration.
Sometime on April 16, a new statement appeared on their "facts" page:
"150 students have served in the Bush administration."
http://www.regent.edu/general/about_us/facts.cfm
Apparently, not all of the 150 are still "serving" Bush, but does this statement also mean that some of the 150 "students" never actually graduated from the U?
Anno Domini refered to Lord Ceasar, dumbass.
Ranger: Jeff, somewhere out there, people you do even know, are praying for your well-being. If you stopped a moment to catalouge your blessings, you would find at their source Judeo-Christian principles. Man's rule is to manipulate for temporary advantage, God's rule is to treat others as you wish to be treated, and you will find spiritual reward, inspite of temporary discomfort. You are belittling good people that you do not know for a shallow political agenda. Such talk scars your soul. Yes Jeff, Jesus is in the Constitution of the United States of America, even though your own blindness obscures his name. Denial is not a river in Egypt. Please read the Establishment Clause Article VII: "Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven..." Now we know that our Founding Fathers considered Jesus LORD, because that is what Anno Domini means. They studied Latin, Hebrew a
Frightening, but not particularly surprising except for the #s from the same college.
Now that explains everything; thank you for sharing. I do not know much about too many religions, but I do know that the Hebrew/Christian god gave the people "free will". The people who formed the Union may have used that concept by saying "liberty" was an unalienable right. (or God given). Liberty is freedom to choose. I am neither liberal nor conservative. It is easy to spot the unthinking, sheep among those who commented. They are the ones blindly following the religous leaders, rather than doing what Christ told them to do as recorded by the Bible.