Saturday, March 9th, 2013
Stephan: The Founders, who knew from personal and family history what happens when the church state wall is breached, did their best to make this wall unbreachable. And for most of American history so it remained. But, beginning about 40 years ago, with the rise of the Theocratic Right -- the marriage of extremist Rightwing politics, and Fundamentalist theology -- as this report spells out, there has been an ongoing well-funded attempt to break that wall down. Should this happen it would leave us a deeply damaged country.
Stanford Law School in California is a prestigious institution with a distinguished past. Founded in 1893, one of its first professors was a former president, Benjamin Harrison.
When the school opened new offices in 1975, another president, Gerald Ford, was on hand for the festivities. On its website, Stanford proudly calls itself ‘one of the nation’s top law schools.