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Error Has No Right To Start A Canadian Law School

The Law Society of British Columbia has voted overwhelmingly to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at Trinity Western, a Christian university. Why? Read on: Based in Langley, B.C., last year TWU announced plans to open Canada’s first Christian law school, a move that drew sharp condemnation from corners of Canadian legaldom due to […]

The Law Society of British Columbia has voted overwhelmingly to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at Trinity Western, a Christian university. Why? Read on:

Based in Langley, B.C., last year TWU announced plans to open Canada’s first Christian law school, a move that drew sharp condemnation from corners of Canadian legaldom due to the school’s “community covenant,” which forbids homosexual relationships and sex outside marriage.

Nevertheless, in April, after reviewing legal opinions, case law and more than 300 written opinion, Law Society benchers voted that TWU’s law school was entitled to status as an approved faculty of law.

“Most of the Benchers say they made the decision to respect the Rule of Law,” read a Law Society handout.

In particular, the benchers leaned on a 2001 Supreme Court decision finding that the university had the right to require their staff, faculty and students refrain from homosexual relationships based on the principles of “freedom of conscience and religion.”

The vote this week is not binding; the only one that’s binding is the vote of the Benchers. Nevertheless, as the reader who sent the story writes, “it is an expression of what the legal profession thinks Christians are entitled to.”

 

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