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Posted on 12/06/2011 11:37:31 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments in a religious liberty case that could determine whether a college has the right to require students to profess certain beliefs about homosexuality in order to get a degree.
Augusta State University, in east Georgia, put counseling student Jennifer Keeton on academic probation in 2010 after she acknowledged in private conversations and during class that she disagreed with homosexuality. School administrators claimed Keeton said it would be hard for her to counsel gay clients, a stance they said violated ethical standards for licensed counselors, as put forth by the American Counseling Association.
Faculty members also faulted Keeton for saying she wanted to work with conversion therapy -- which aims to help clients stop living a homosexual lifestyle -- after graduation. And the faculty feared Keeton might harm middle and high school students she was scheduled to work with as part of her degree plan, said Cristina Correia, the state attorney who argued the school's case.
"The university has a responsibility when putting students in a practicum and graduating them," Correia told the court during oral arguments Nov. 29 in Atlanta. "When you have that kind of evidence, the faculty could not, under their ethical standards, put that student in a clinical setting without further remediation."
After putting her on probation, school administrators required Keeton to complete a remediation plan that included going to gay pride events, attending sensitivity training and writing monthly reflection papers. Keeton declined to participate in the plan, and the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit on her behalf in July 2010.
In a brief filed before the hearing, ADF attorney Jeff Shafer denied Keeton ever had a problem maintaining ethical standards for counselors, which include withholding value judgments from clients. The school's only concern has been with Keeton's expressed belief, not her behavior, Shafer wrote.
"It was Miss Keeton's communication of her religion-founded beliefs on sexual ethics which the faculty reported as the justification for their imposing remediation in the first place, and which they condemned as problematic and in need of alteration," he wrote.
Shafer claims Keeton's First Amendment rights were violated because the school targeted her for her expressed viewpoints. He compared the school's attempt to alter Keeton's beliefs in order to remain in the counseling program to a business school that required students to affirm capitalism or disavow socialism in order to graduate.
Attorneys for both sides declined comment after the hearing because the case is under a gag order by the court.
I submit that requiring an affirmation from the same group of clowns trying to suppress the Pledge of Allegiance, is a bit nauseating.
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People, please read this entire article. Even if you read not everything else, or little else, this article must be read. Our institutions of higher learning [sic] which receive beaucoup tax dollars (they shouldn't!) have become, to varying degress, hothouses of the most poisonous growth of mandatory celebration of perversion, and treat normal people with moral conviction as though they were vicious criminals. If anyone thinks that perverted leftists will stop here, think again. History tells us that re-education camps and gulags are the next steps on this path.
Maybe someone can arrange a pay per view!!! Well publicized it could garner a large audience.
At the federal district court level, the judge, Randal Hall, a GEORGE W. BUSH nominee, ruled against the student.
If the judge happens to be pederastic queer (sorry for being redundant) then the answer will be YES.
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I really think the world needs to know the facts and have somebody present the facts in a clear, concise and understandable manner. I would love to debate anybody on the subject so the entire world can see they've been lied to and how the pro-homosexual stance has no merit.
Hey, I can dream!
Here's an interesting discussion.
http://atheism.about.com/od/tencommandments/a/commandment09.htm
My own view is that there are situations where lying is not only acceptable, but possibly mandatory. The main thing being that no innocent party be hurt.
For instance, untrue gossip, maybe gossip in general, for who can say what is true, would be wrong. On the other hand, telling the armed robber that that was all the cash you had would be permissible.
anyway, that's my opinion, and some day I'll answer to God as to whether I was right or wrong.
Amen to that!!
Although since Cain imploded, I’m still making decisions
Besides, for every situation that needed “counseling”, don’t they prefer the more direct method of decapitation?
I’ll comment after I get some stuff done. thanks again
for your efforts here.
University finance is the hydra’s head. Need to choke that
off.
THere should not be one penny of fedgov money going to any educational institution, large or small.
Not sure about military academies, they are now so strangled with pc/fag/muzzie crap. Ideally I spose they should get fed money but only in a constitutioanl gov.
Sorry for typing, don’t feel well right now.
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