Posted on 07/22/2010 1:49:10 PM PDT by topher
Ooops.... and the school has no right to “re-educate” her or force her to accept a new belief.
They can require to abstain from “preaching” but demanding a change in belief and discussing how her re-education is going is way overboard.
First, she is not counseling anyone, she is in training to be a counselor. Even people who want to be Christian counselors need training, right?
Second, there is no evidence she was witnessing. The article appears to show that she answered questions about her beliefs as it pertains to homosexuality, not that she was counseling homosexuals and trying to convert them.
Bottom line, you post makes a lot of assumptions not supported by the story.
Apparently she did - This is a Masters program - until the issue of counseling homosexuals arose and she could not simply pretend she approved of the practice without lying.
If she wants to be a counselor for people seeking help from professionals who share the same faith then she should seek a job there.
She probably planned to do just that but she needs her degrees, first. The school is effectively denying her that unless she pretends to approve of homosexual behavior and 'counsel' homosexuals accordingly, which she cannot do in good conscience.
There is a place for witnessing and there is a place for counseling. Sometimes they meet in the same place but in a secular setting it really would be inappropriate for a counselor to couch her practice, advice or therapy with “her qualifiers”.
She wasn't 'witnessing'. She simply cannot pretend to approve of homosexual behavior and the school refuses to accept her position and insists she be 're-educated'. Granted, it appears to be a stalemate situation but the school is frighteningly heavy-handed in it's strict requirement that she accept homosexual behavior as 'normal', when it clearly is not. I hope she wins the suit.
>> The left is always hypocritical no matter what.
To be hypocritical, I would expect some valuable relationship to support the distinction of hypocrisy. To be always hypocritical implies the elimination of any valuable relationship.
The Left is not out to maintain a compatible set of values with you - it wants to crush you. The Left is not hypocritical, the Left is antithetical.
They really really want to export her and weaken the Christian programs that take on counsellors.
How far we’ve come, that the term can be used freely now, since we’re so “tolerant” of everything except Christianity. I wonder if we’re at the point yet where we could talk about gas chambers so openly.
hypocritical, antiethical. The two are hardly mutually exclusive, and the Left is both, plus some other bad things.
>> The two are hardly mutually exclusive
As the terms are unrelated, I wouldn’t disagree.
To make my point, I wouldn’t call Hitler a hypocrite, but his character is the antithesis of all that is good.
Not public school, K-12, but of interest to the vast numbers of religious people out there who are looking at college with their kids.
**“A public university student shouldn’t be threatened with expulsion for being a Christian and refusing to publicly renounce her faith, but that’s exactly what’s happening here. Simply put, the university is imposing thought reform,” said ADF Senior Counsel David French. **
Sounds like persecution of Christians to me.
ARTH?
That does kind of grab one's attention.
This poor girl certainly has her house in order...not so much the people who are pushing her around. I have had it up to here with militant gays and their cheering sections of straight folk who want to seem “tolerant”.
We have even lost large chunks of our language to these fools.
Gay-used in Gone with the Wind-used to mean happy, fine time
Queen- used to mean royalty.
tranny- used to be shorthand for transmission
queer- used to mean odd.
fag- used to mean a cigarette in the UK.
And even more scary is this phrase that is all their own: Second generation gay. It means a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning person with at least one LGBTQ parents.
I am hoping that FL continues to ban gay adoption based on the paragraph above, but who knows. We are going the way of old Rome in a hurry. Kids are encouraged to explore these days which is sick. Girls kissing girls is now sexy and ok. That never happened in my day. Guys were glad to get to second base. Third base and home runs were for couples who had been together for a while.
Lets face it, if all bets are off and everything is ok teenage hormones are going to send kids off in all sorts of direction. This young lady who takes the Bible seriously and follows Christian teachings is in for a lot more tests. Please pray for her.
bttt
No need for that.....The Georgia legislature can simply defund Augusta State, since they are unwilling to serve the public.
When you’re with the Flintstones,
have a yabba dabba doo time,
a dabba doo time,
we’ll have a gay old time.
Oh yeah... the horns are visible and twitching visibly.
May the Lord Jesus protect us from the vermin running our institutions of learning and govt.
Except our state and national legislatures don’t do anything “simply” unless there is a torrent of opposition and yes, street marches.
I informally pinged the list, which is why you got it.
It sort of doesn’t really quite qualify as ARTH, as it’s not K-12 public school and is not another reason to homeschool, but stuff like this is very useful information because of so many people looking at colleges with their kids.
>>So what the school is advocating is, clearly, Orwellian double-think, the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accept both of them.
My first reaction on reading this was “Ah! Thoughtcrime! Doubleplusungood! Off to re-education camp!”
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