“I think it’s unthinkable that we’re debating what a family is, a man married to a woman. They’ve got that right in the barnyard. We’ve had that for 6,000 years and to think that we’re trying to redefine families.”

— Reverend Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, speaking today on NBC’s Meet the Press.

The Liberty University School of Law, in Lynchburg, Virginia — the new branch of the university founded by Jerry Falwell in 1971 — opened its doors this year to its first class of law students. According to Mr. Falwell, among the school’s missions is the desire to prepare “conservative warriors” for the “important battles against the anti-religious zealots at the American Civil Liberties Union.”

Mimi Hanaoka