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Should Trinity Western Have It's Law School Accredited?

Should Trinity Western Have It's Law School Accredited?

  • Yes, it should be accredited.

    Votes: 8 61.5%
  • No, it should not be accredited.

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • No, it should not have a law school to begin with.

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • Total voters
    13

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This is a Canadian issue but I'm sure that Americans can chime in. Trinity Western University is a private Christian university in B.C., which recently got a law school. A controversy has risen among law societies because Trinity Western has a discriminatory policy against homosexuals saying that same-sex intimacy is prohibited. For context B.C. is not a conservative province and was the second province to legalize same-sex marriage. The Upper Canada Law Society (Ontario) voted this week to refuse accreditation with those opposing the school saying: “I cannot vote to accredit a law school which seeks to control students in their bedrooms.” This is a major setback for the university as it has been refused accreditation by the largest and most influential law society. Nova Scotia voted to recognize it but only if they remove the discriminatory policy. Lawyers and activists in B.C. and Ontario have launched a court challenge and petitions to refuse the university to have a law school to begin with. Trinity Western would also be the only private university with a law school.

I personally do not believe Trinity Western should have a law school to begin with. They are a private university but that changes with law students.
 
Is there some convention that states that only public universities can have law schools? If not this seems like more leftist discrimination.
 
Is there some convention that states that only public universities can have law schools? If not this seems like more leftist discrimination.

Well almost all universities in the country including all the prominent and top ranking ones are public. There are approximately 82 public universities in Canada and only 13 private and all of them are rather tiny and poorly ranked.
 
Well almost all universities in the country including all the prominent and top ranking ones are public. There are approximately 82 public universities in Canada and only 13 private and all of them are rather tiny and poorly ranked.

But is any reason, aside from the university's conservatism, to deny the accreditation?
 
But is any reason, aside from the university's conservatism, to deny the accreditation?

That si what the entire debate is about. The law societies do not want to recognize a university that discriminates against homosexuals.
 
That si what the entire debate is about. The law societies do not want to recognize a university that discriminates against homosexuals.

The whole point of any university is to teach the particular subject matter that they are teaching. So long as they are teaching the law within the regulations set about by the legal establishment, it doesn't matter what else they teach on top of it. Law schools are about learning the law, period. Stop trying to push your liberal ideals on them.
 
bleh bleh bleh bleh. more sick and disgusting behavior. why would a homosexual want to go to a christian school anyway. Makes no sense.
 
This is a Canadian issue but I'm sure that Americans can chime in. Trinity Western University is a private Christian university in B.C., which recently got a law school. A controversy has risen among law societies because Trinity Western has a discriminatory policy against homosexuals saying that same-sex intimacy is prohibited. For context B.C. is not a conservative province and was the second province to legalize same-sex marriage. The Upper Canada Law Society (Ontario) voted this week to refuse accreditation with those opposing the school saying: “I cannot vote to accredit a law school which seeks to control students in their bedrooms.” This is a major setback for the university as it has been refused accreditation by the largest and most influential law society. Nova Scotia voted to recognize it but only if they remove the discriminatory policy. Lawyers and activists in B.C. and Ontario have launched a court challenge and petitions to refuse the university to have a law school to begin with. Trinity Western would also be the only private university with a law school.

I personally do not believe Trinity Western should have a law school to begin with. They are a private university but that changes with law students.

Are they funded at all by your government? If so then they should not be accreditted. If not, :shrug: accredit them. In the states here they would have the right to be. Then boycott them. Make them lose business.
 
Are they funded at all by your government? If so then they should not be accreditted. If not, :shrug: accredit them. In the states here they would have the right to be. Then boycott them. Make them lose business.

The university is private but the law societies are separate entities that decide who they to accredit and who to not.
 
bleh bleh bleh bleh. more sick and disgusting behavior. why would a homosexual want to go to a christian school anyway. Makes no sense.

There are Christian homosexuals.
 
The whole point of any university is to teach the particular subject matter that they are teaching. So long as they are teaching the law within the regulations set about by the legal establishment, it doesn't matter what else they teach on top of it. Law schools are about learning the law, period. Stop trying to push your liberal ideals on them.

Law is also secular and suppose to be equal.
 
The university is private but the law societies are separate entities that decide who they to accredit and who to not.

Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly, the law societies that decide who gets accreditted and who doesn't is not a part of the government? They're private entities also?
 
your confused, and so are they. But they will find out on judgement day.

No, they'll be dead, just like everyone else. Enough with your crazy delusions.
 
Let me make sure I'm understanding you correctly, the law societies that decide who gets accreditted and who doesn't is not a part of the government? They're private entities also?

It is a self-governing association, it was created by an act of Parliament but is not part of the government. That is my understanding of it.
 
They are teaching law with religion, they are also discriminating.

Then go after them under anti-discrimination laws, if you have any. That has nothing whatsoever to do with their accreditation.
 
Then go after them under anti-discrimination laws, if you have any. That has nothing whatsoever to do with their accreditation.

Yes it does, the law socities are choosing whether or not to accredit the university and they are refusing to do so because of their policies and they are allowed to do that all they want.
 
Death is only the beginning.

Conveniently, religions place all of their claims after people are dead and can't come back to tell the religious how full of crap they really are.
 
Yes it does, the law socities are choosing whether or not to accredit the university and they are refusing to do so because of their policies and they are allowed to do that all they want.

Sounds like a really stupid political system you have there.
 
Sounds like a really stupid political system you have there.

The law societies were created by the government but they are not part of the government, they can decide who they want practicing law and who they do not.
 
It is a self-governing association, it was created by an act of Parliament but is not part of the government. That is my understanding of it.

Interesting. Lets put it this way. If they recieve government monies then they should not discriminate themselves and as such they should accredit the school. If they don't...:shrug: as a private entity it's their choice. Private religious schools here in the US are allowed to discriminate in who they take in and don't take in so long as they at least teach what is government mandated to teach. Anything taught beyond that is entirely up to the school.
 
Interesting. Lets put it this way. If they recieve government monies then they should not discriminate themselves and as such they should accredit the school. If they don't...:shrug: as a private entity it's their choice. Private religious schools here in the US are allowed to discriminate in who they take in and don't take in so long as they at least teach what is government mandated to teach. Anything taught beyond that is entirely up to the school.

It is not the government accrediting them, it is the law societies which can be considered their own private entities but with the power to decide who can and cannot practice law.
 
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