4th District Democrat David Price is best known as a former Duke political science professor, but before he became that, he attended Yale University getting his bachelor’s degree in divinity and also his Ph.D. in political science, according to the official bio on his U.S. House website:

He received his undergraduate degree at UNC-Chapel Hill and went on to Yale University to earn a Bachelor of Divinity as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science.

Voters may not have given much thought to that Yale divinity lineage over the years Price has been a member of Congress, but another Yale Divinity School grad who is seeking a seat in the U.S. Senate says being a YDS grad ensures a congressman will bring something special to the plate. Chris Coons, the Democrat running in Delaware, had this to say to the Yale Divinity ‘s Notes from the Quad in its September 2010 issue:

Serving in the United States Senate would be a “great way for me to apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS.

The American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord has done an excellent job sussing out what YDS values are, basing it on the actual courses that are taught there. Here’s his conclusion:

When you cut through all the academic jargon, intellectual pretense, and nonsense, the end result of the values Chris Coons wishes to bring to Washington from the Yale Divinity School are the same as they always are with the dismal socialist experiment through the centuries. Inducing poverty, financial and personal humiliation, they are legendary in creating unsustainable debt and the cruelest of economic misery. In the case of the values learned at Yale Divinity School by Coons this is all served up with a side dish of utter nuttiness.

And that’s no joke.

I’m hoping that many of these crazy multiculti courses weren’t part of the curriculum when Price attended YDS more than 30 years ago, and that the values he learned were more in line with what one thinks divinity school values are.