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Prior to law school, I completed my undergraduate and graduate degrees at Trinity Western University. Having benefitted from its outstanding quality of education, if TWU had a law school I would have considered attending. Instead, I took up a coveted spot in the public system. Last year I graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, passed the bar exams and began articling in B.C. Several months from now, I anticipate being called to the bar.

There is little distinction between me and future Trinity Western graduates. Despite attending law school in the public system, I have not been “born again” in the secularist image. My faith remains at the core of my identity and will continue to impact my personal governance as well as how I interact with the world. It is who I am. And yet, I’ll be allowed to practice. Why not others?

Lawyers are correct to recognize that Christians will approach the practice of law differently. I believe in the equality and inherent worth of all persons, for example, not because it is popular today, but because every person was created in the image of God. I support your ability to worship whomever you choose not just because the Charter says so, but because free will is a central aspect of being human. My career of advocacy will be rooted in service and driven by a desire to honour God through using my gifts — not for money or prestige.

The law societies have sought to do what is popular rather than what is right according to the law. I get it — they want to be on the “right side of history” by protecting a historically disadvantaged minority group, but in doing so, they have in succumbed to a mob majority. This was most clear when the B.C. benchers resolved to subject my rights to a referendum. The balancing of my freedoms was put to a popular vote and thankfully deemed unacceptable by Chief Justice Hinkson of the B.C. Supreme Court this past December.