Posted on 11/22/2010 2:59:22 PM PST by Notwithstanding
NAPLES — Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke of the importance Ave Maria School of Law will have in replacing the current liberal, secular legal system during the law school’s 10th Anniversary celebration held at the Naples Ritz Carlton Beach Resort on Friday night.
The potential 2012 presidential hopeful converted to Roman Catholicism in 2009, which is the same year the law school relocated from Ann Arbor, Mich., to Naples.
The law school’s students would be prepared to write the laws, defend the laws and defeat the left, Gingrich said. The modern, secular law, he said, can be seen every few minutes on TV.
“Ads on television, basically say ‘do you know somebody with money we could mug together?’ …Call…’” Gringrich said.
This school matters, he said, by replacing the “neutral technology for the redistribution of wealth” with a morally-based legal system.
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I know a few Ave grads from when they were in Ann Arbor. Good people who worked their butts off and have their heads on straight. I was sad to see them move to Florida, but that's what happens when township governments don't cooperate.
Georgetown provides a secular education.
Sure, it is owned by Jesuits, but they have tried to appease antiCatholic bigots by misguidedly adopting secular ways.
Okey.
Can we stop the Left from bringing up Gingrich’s previous marital problems when he becomes the nominee?
I don’t think so. They’ll still paint him as hypocrite, with no regard with the possibility that Gingrich has really had a change of heart for good.
As for his newly found acquaintance with G*d, I say quite good for him.
What if he’s faking?
It’s a possibility, he he he!
But, as good Christians, we don’t want to be his “judge”, right? He he he!
I say, that in the end, Gingrich will answer to his Maker for all his shortcomings. So do we.
Let’s pray for “honesty”, truth, fairness, love for our neighbor, and justice in this country ... so that God will bless America once again.
I would doubt that he’s “faking.” Gingrich’s Christian faith has exposed him to more ridicule from the left and more suspicion from the right, so I certainly don’t see any reason he should be faking it.
I know he didn’t do it for the singing. They sing better in Protestant churches and the pentecostal churches have more action.
Sharia is a system that applies a sectarian religious law - including ritual law - to every aspect of civil life. Islamic law, in turn, is not based on natural law or any concept that such a thing as natural law even exists, but is extracted from Mohammed’s ravings and the subsequent elaborations upon them in the early years of Islam. It is a purely sectarian production, little different from secular positive law except that its source is different. But it is still arbitrary, state-made law, designed to force people to behave in certain ways that are beneficial to the state, because Islam is nothing but a political system where the hereditary leaders of the sect are in charge. The Saudis are actually the head honchos in this cult.
By contrast, Catholic legal ideals are founded on the basic concept of natural law (that is, that there exists a law engraved on the heart of all men simply by their nature as beings created in the image and likeness of God, although naturally some societies have a clearer expression of it than others). The US Constitution is founded on this concept, and until fairly recently, US law was based on it.
But somehow, thanks primarily to the progressives on the Supreme Court, we have moved away from this, and our law is less and less based on the concept of natural, God given rights and standards, and more and more on the idea that the state is the master and the sole function of a human being is to be obedient to and at the disposal of the state, and therefore the law is whatever the state says it is.
LOL! That's certainly the truth! A fact I can reaffirm every Sunday...
The millenium will have arrived when we see an Ave Maria graduate confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Heck, one of their professors ( Robert Bork ) could not even be confirmed no matter how qualified he was.
But we can dream can’t we??
Sheesh.
I don’t want the Catholic church influencing our courts any more than I want Sharia law.
We must demand fair and honest secular law.
I think this “Breaking News” story was posted last week.
Why is Gingrich doing this right before the 2012 campaigning starts?
But will it heal the ambulance chasing syndrome most lawyers suffer from?
Re: Gingrich and his former moral depravity —
The essential issue here is consequences of sin. Newt may be reformed and fully forgiven, but that doesn’t wipe the slate clean in this life.
Look at David and his sin with Bathsheba. Fully forgiven, a beloved child of God, “a man after God’s own heart,” he still paid the price and endured trouble throughout his reign as a result of his bad judgement. Read II Samuel.
Newt is a fine spokesman, but he can’t announce that he’s reformed and repentant and religious, and expect everyone to trust him again. He’s living a charmed life now, but what happens when stressful times come and he faces temptation again?
The public needs to look at past performance and character flaws. The current Occupant of the WH is one good example of what happens when we don’t.
You wrote:
“We must demand fair and honest secular law.”
Catholics are your only hope of getting that in this country.
This is so ridiculous. The same theology you use in this analysis is the one that will tell there is no trustworthy person. There is none credible, no not one.
“But will it heal the ambulance chasing syndrome most lawyers suffer from?”
What a good point. We recently moved to Orlando and hopefully will only be here for three months. You can’t drive 100 feet down any street in town without seeing a billboard from some attorney wanting your business if you are a crash victim, taken some sort of medicine, been exposed to some sort of lethal substance, or any number of other real and imagined wrongs. The television is even worse.
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