Equality and justice are words that are thrown around quite a bit in the area of law, especially in the view of Critical Legal Studies. CLS is looking to create justice and equality by not following the normal social ways. They believe that non-conventional approaches to law work better than how we are set up in today’s society and believe that how we are running law today is not right. They believe that we are oppressing the people and want to get rid of those who are over them. As for a definition of equality, today we say equality is those who have more give to the poor so that they can have the same amount of money as the rich. This means that equality is looking to equal out how society is today. To do this CLS lawyers are trying unconventional ways of overturning the law and trying to get rid of laws that we have today. They believe that equality not only should be found in class but also in rights, as in homosexuality and other rights that are not to this day acknowledged. Christians know that these things are wrong and they should not try and get involved in the changing of marital laws, but CLS lawyers believe that because the people feel like society looks down on them they should change the laws to give them something to feel good about.
When Christians think of justice and having justice they usually think of a murderer getting what he disserves by giving him the death penalty, or being rude and mean to homosexuals. The opposite is actually the case. God calls us to help the orphans and the widows. He wants us to help those who truly need our help. To get justice we are to love people and show them God’s love. We are called to do what we know is right. The Holy Spirit resides in us and through this, God gives us a conscience that tells us what is right and wrong. God calls us to not change our government to drastically change the way we live, but to help those who feel oppressed and to give them God’s love so that they no longer feel such a way. Not only are we called to love others, but God also tells us to not be of the world and be polluted by it. We are told to be good examples to others so that maybe one day we can have a society that is better than we have today
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