How is it that they Got a Law Degree?

Tennessee Judge Lu Ann Ballew ordered a 7 month old child name be changed from "Messiah" to "Martin", making the argument: "the word Messiah is a title and it's a title that has only been earned by one person and that person is Jesus Christ."  While I agree that this is probably the right call, her rationale is historically wrong, plainly a violation of the first amendment, flies in the face of a parents right to name their child, and several other things.  I also have some big questions about standing.  I haven't been able to find out why the court got involved at all, but if a relative complained, she might have ruled that the kid would be hassled in the highly bible thumping area he was being raised in, and given the parents an opportunity to choose a different, less contentious name.  But the religious argument is nonsense.  Apart from the fact that it is illegal for the government to involve themselves in religious matters (especially imposing some particular religious strictures on a family), there were hundreds of people who claimed the title "Messiah" or its translation in other languages during the era the New Testament takes place in.  Not only that, "Messiah" was in 2012 the 387th most popular name for boys, right between "Scott" and "Jay".  Having grown up with slightly unusual name myself, I got hassled for it.  I feel for this poor kid....)   How did she get past the first few months of Law School with this thinking?

Roy Moore was recently elected again as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme court, after having been removed by unanimous vote of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary (the overseer for judges).  He'd refused to obey repeated orders from a federal court to remove biblical monuments from the Alabama state courthouse that he'd had installed.  He argued that the ten commandments are the "moral foundation" of US law.  (had the claim been about the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the old testament by about a thousand years, it would have made more sense but Moore's claim, like Ballew's, flies in the face of history and law)

Congress has many lawyers who demonstrably do not understand some of the basics of the law.  Louie Gohmert has for some years been leading polls as the stupidest member of the US congress.  He too has a law degree (from Baylor, which I'd thought was a good school) and worked for years as a District Court Judge.   One of his top rivals for this rank is Michelle Bachmann, who also has a law degree (from Oral Roberts--less reputable than Baylor but still a real school).   Jeff Sessions (JD University of Alabama) was elected repeatedly as a District Attorney.  He was nominated for a District Court appointment but was rejected when several appallingly racist remarks came to light.  (Sessions has repeatedly called the ACLU and NAACP "unamerican" which represents a rather shocking misunderstanding of what these organizations do.  He also thinks fewer than 1% of lawyers support ACLU.  In fact, around 1% of attorneys have actually donated legal work to the ACLU and far more than that are members)  Hank Johnson (famous for wondering if Guam might capsize...I suspect this was meant as a joke but it came out badly) got his JD from Texas Southern University and practiced law for 25 years.