The final judgement will be... in Heaven (folds hands together reverently)

People are allowed to hold religious beliefs (Muslim, Christian etc), including those that do not accept same-sex marriage. I'm sure there are lawyers not affiliated with TWU who would avoid taking on cases involving same-sex marriage, based upon their religious beliefs, and I see no problem with that. Now if a medical practitioner refused to administer health care based upon sexual preference, then you would have a case, but lawyers are free to pick whomever they want, unless their employers specifically say that they cannot refuse a client.

I personally agree with same-sex marriage and have long championed for equality for all people, but in our zest to injure people who do not hold the same beliefs we've gone way overboard. I hope TWU at least have their voices heard, even if they are not successful.

They'll fight to the end to set up their law school. They need a well-funded place where young right wing Christian fundamentalists can study law. In such a place, they can form those long-lasting, personal, faith-based relationships that they will carry forward into the legal sphere and which will allow them to subvert the socially liberal tendencies of the courts, including a woman's right to access safe abortion services. Think about it: what kind of study groups will these right-wing Christian law students be encouraged to form? What kind of judges will emerge from the TWU Law School class of 2020? This kind of isolated, conservative concentration of legal thought and cohort-formation is not really possible right now in Canada. Considering that the worst of the conservative forces have blithely allied themselves with the worst corporations and the worst of American politics (much as the worst of the left used to ally with the Soviet Union), a law school at TWU is bad news indeed.

See the view of Kevin Kindred, a leading queer-rights activist and lawyer in Nova Scotia. It may surprise--and elucidate:
http://nsbs.org/sites/default/files/ftp/TWU_Submissions/2014-01-28_Kindr...

It's kinda funny that the law society would prejudge graduates of Trinity. You would think lawyers knew better. But it's no secret that the lawyers and judges in this province are more interested in dictating their social agenda to the people of BC. Just look at how they continually go easy on criminals and don't give a damn about victims. Now they want to tell us how to think and what to believe. NO THANK YOU!!!!! Lawyers claiming the moral high ground - NOW THAT'S FUNNY. If you've ever dealt with a lawyer you know their only allegiance is to their pocketbook.

We have private jewish schools that include jewish religious principles in their curriculum , and that is never critsized , it seems that the only religious group that it is socially acceptable these days to criticize is the Christian community. Even when extremist terrorist groups that identify themselves as Muslim , it is "politically incorrect" to criticize Muslim organizations. It seems to be open season on Christian groups . Perhaps we should respect all religious groups equally , as well as all other people with different opinions and beliefs

If justice is blind, than let's practice what we preach. If a grad from TWU wants to practice law, their personal opinion on non-hetero or cis gendered citizens should not bias their practice. They can think what they want if today's changing tides of reason won't persuade them otherwise, but my Canada includes justice for all.

@Well...

Your Canada doesn't exist.

It's been a hard, uphill struggle for the forces of progress to bring in things like a human rights code that protects people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation (1992). The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which doesn't even do that, but does protect people regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, etc from discrimination by government only came into existence in 1982.

It's unfortunate that people are so willing to go to extreme lengths to APPEAR to play fair with those that play dirty at every single turn of the road, as is evident from the behaviour of our Conservative government. Such high, heavenly ideals!

"Well...," practicing what is preached is the fucking problem here.

Some people are never going to accept same-sex marriage, just as some will never accept abortion. You can try to humiliate them on social media, marginalize them and deny them of their basic rights, but you aren't going to ban their personal thoughts.

Let me know where the ban on personal thought law has been enacted. I'm curious about that because I belong to the evidence based community. I don't have faith in the idea and I find praying for the answer to be less useful than Angry Birds