Faith healer Pat Robertson's Regent University profiled on PBS

[Questioninggeller]

Article below, link includes download.


A Look at Regent University
Bill Moyer's Journal

BILL MOYERS: Welcome. Later in the JOURNAL we'll return to the war and its cost, but first, take a look at these pictures.

The other day many Americans observed the National Day of Prayer. Leading up to it, volunteers turned out on the West Lawn of the Capitol to hold a Bible reading marathon. Foreign participants were offered Bibles in languages other than English. In the shadow of the Capitol and blocks from the White House, it was a reminder that the wall between church and state in America more closely resembles Swiss cheese.

Across the Potomac River in Virginia, the cradle of the First Amendment, a familiar figure surely smiled as he beheld this mingling of politics and piety. If he had his way, that wall would come down altogether

Graduation day at Regent University in Virginia.

The commencement speaker charges the 1,000 graduates to go forth and change the world.

MITT ROMNEY: America needs great Americans today, perhaps more than ever. From the beginning there has been evil in the world. Today so many of our children swim in what Peggy Noonan called an "ocean of filth." Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games. The Virginia tech shooter like the Columbine shooters before him had drunk from this cesspool.

BILL MOYERS: He's Mitt Romney — Once upon a time, the moderate governor of Massachusetts, supporter of stem cell research, gun control, and choice for women.

But over time people change.

Now he's running for the Republican nomination for president and he's made this pilgrimage to one of the country's most conservative evangelical schools to assure everyone here he is with them. Especially Pat Robertson.
...


A Look at Regent University (http://richarddawkins.net/article,1206,A-Look-at-Regent-University,Bill-Moyers-Journal)

[clerihew80]

You know what I'd like to see? A StopPatRobertson page.

[vacognition]

I actually know somebody who went to that school. Before you get too worried about that law school, consider that the job prospects are fairly poor for somebody who goes to such a school.

Although we all know about the fantastic salaries graduates of top law schools can command fresh out of graduation, the truth is that many lawyers have difficulty paying off their loans. Job placement at the lower-tier schools is not great, but the cost of education is still tremendous.

[steve s]

Before you get too worried about that law school, consider that the job prospects are fairly poor for somebody who goes to such a school.



Not as long as GWB is prez.

Steve S.

[steve s]

Sorry. Double post.

[Katana]

I actually know somebody who went to that school. Before you get too worried about that law school, consider that the job prospects are fairly poor for somebody who goes to such a school.

Although we all know about the fantastic salaries graduates of top law schools can command fresh out of graduation, the truth is that many lawyers have difficulty paying off their loans. Job placement at the lower-tier schools is not great, but the cost of education is still tremendous.


Well, that might have been the case before, but things changed a bit when Bush stepped into the White House.

But even in its darker days, Regent has had no better friend than the Bush administration. Graduates of the law school have been among the most influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal government positions since President Bush took office in 2001, according to a university website.

One of those graduates is Monica Goodling , the former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who is at the center of the storm over the firing of US attorneys. Goodling, who resigned on Friday, has become the face of Regent overnight -- and drawn a harsh spotlight to the administration's hiring of officials educated at smaller, conservative schools with sometimes marginal academic reputations...

...Not long ago, it was rare for Regent graduates to join the federal government. But in 2001, the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent's government school, Kay Coles James , to be the director of the Office of Personnel Management -- essentially the head of human resources for the executive branch. The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent alumni...

...Many of those who have Regent law degrees, including Goodling, joined the Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late 2002, when John Ashcroft , then attorney general, changed longstanding rules for hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks...

...The changes resulted in a sometimes dramatic alteration to the profile of new hires beginning in 2003, as the Globe reported last year after obtaining resumes from 2001-2006 to three sections in the civil rights division. Conservative credentials rose, while prior experience in civil rights law and the average ranking of the law school attended by the applicant dropped.


Link (http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school/)

[Katana]

Oops.

Double post.

Appears it's contagious.