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A graduate student in Georgia is suing her university after she was told she must undergo a remediation program due to her beliefs on homosexuality and transgendered persons. The student, Jennifer Keeton, 24, has been pursuing a master's degree in school counseling at Augusta State University since 2009, but school officials have informed her that she'll be dismissed from the program unless she alters her "central religious beliefs on human nature and conduct," according to a civil complaint filed last week. "[Augusta State University] faculty have promised to expel Miss Keeton from the graduate Counselor Education Program not because of...

Thursday July 22, 2010 Augusta State Univ. to Counseling Student: Change Beliefs or Get Out AUGUSTA, Georgia, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed suit against Augusta State University Wednesday on behalf of a counseling student who was allegedly told that her Christian beliefs are unethical and incompatible with the prevailing views of the counseling profession. The student, Jennifer Keeton, says she has been told to stop communicating her beliefs and that she must undergo "training" to accept homosexuality in order to graduate from the counseling program.Augusta State ordered Keeton to undergo a...

Tim Pawlenty, the pro-life Minnesota governor and potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, is drawing cheers and jeers from pro-life and pro-abortion groups for declaring April as a month to help women negatively affected by their abortions. As LifeNews.com first reported two weeks ago, Pawlenty and Texas Gov. Rick Perry both declared April as Abortion Recovery/Awareness Month. Lisa Dudley, Director of Operation Outcry, a group that helps women who regret their abortions speak out, told LifeNews.com at the time that Pawlenty's move showed he has an "understanding of the consequences of abortion" and a " willingness to protect women and the...

President Barack Obama quietly breached years of protocol on Saturday morning by leaving the White House without the press with him. About two hours before reporters were supposed to be in position to leave with the president, Obama left the grounds of the White House. Members of the press were told he was attending one of his daughter's soccer games in northwest Washington, D.C. The White House press corps traditionally travels with the president anywhere he goes, inside and outside the country, to report on the president's activities for the benefit of informing the public and for historical record.

A respected domestic violence and anger management counselor in Fairfax County was arraigned in federal court Thursday after he allegedly pulled a gun on two men who he believed were blocking his car on an Annandale street last week. The two men were federal marshals. Jose L. Avila, 57, was ordered held without bond pending a detention hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. He has been held in the Fairfax jail since Jan. 25, when he apparently picked the wrong place and time to complain about thoughtless parking. Avila's attorney said Avila had worked for many years at...

During a recent talk regarding my book, “Blessed with Bipolar,” I was stumped by the question, “How does a person get to where you are now from where you were in the psych ward?” I actually have a 380 page answer to that question. What stumped me was the question behind the question: “How do I get my bipolar daughter into treatment?”

As a member of the American Psychological Association for 36 years, I am filled with indignation at the recent statement of the APA that deems it “inappropriate” for therapists to treat homosexual clients. Such therapy is called reparative therapy and has as its goal the establishment of a heterosexual orientation in place of a homosexual one. This statement of the APA has been issued despite the fact that there are a number of outstanding members of that organization, including two past presidents, who have strongly supported reparative treatment.Issued in August, “Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation” advises treatments that “increase...

WASHINGTON -- Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable political talent. But there are no "death panels" in the Democratic health care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate. We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend. To offer government reimbursement to any doctor who gives end-of-life counseling -- whether or not the patient...

GOP backs away from end-of-life counselingBy BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer Ben Evans, Associated Press Writer – 44 mins ago WASHINGTON – Until last week, Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson was among the most enthusiastic backers of end-of-life counseling in government health care programs like Medicare. That was before conservatives called it a step toward euthanasia and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin likened the idea to a bureaucratic "death panel" that would decide whether sick people get to live. And even though those claims have been widely discredited, the issue remains a political weapon in the increasingly bitter health care debate....

What happened to ObamaCare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health care nirvana: more coverage, less cost. But you can't fake it in legislation. Once you commit your fantasies to words and numbers, the Congressional Budget Office comes along and declares that the emperor has no clothes. President Obama premised the need for reform on the claim that medical costs are destroying the economy. True. But now we learn — surprise! — that universal coverage increases costs. The congressional Democrats' health care plans, says the...

Obamacare dictates end of life counseling every five years (or more)... See for yourself: Here is the section dealing with end of life counseling for seniors. This section talks about possible life sustaining treatment. These orders, of course, will be "standardized and uniquely identifiable throughout the State." This life sustaining treatment will be "guided by a coalition of stakeholders includes representatives from emergency medical services, emergency department physicians or nurses, state long-term care association, state medical association, state surveyors, agency responsible for senior services, state department of health, state hospital association, home health association, state bar association, and state hospice...

A 16-year-old charter high school student allegedly struck out against a classmate who had been bullying him Wednesday by stabbing the youth with a scissors in a school hallway. Chicago Public Schools officials said the stabbing happened during a "conflict resolution" session -- in which the perpetrator and his father had come to meet with the dean of academics over how to address threats from the alleged bully. CPS officials said the father and son had been meeting with school officials on the issue just before 9 a.m., when the son left the dean's office and encountered the alleged bully...

May 4, 2008 -- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's loose cannon of a spiritual adviser, stole the wife of a parishioner - after the man sought Wright's help in saving his troubled marriage, the former husband told friends. Delmer Reed, 59, confided to pals that he believed the minister moved in on his wife while Wright was counseling the couple at his Chicago church in the early 1980s, The Post has learned. "That's exactly how he said it," Reed's divorce lawyer, Roosevelt Thomas, told The Post. "It looks like Delmer might have been right," he said, because after Delmer...

London (CNSNews.com) - Britain's parliament looks set for another fight over abortion this summer as a lawmaker pushes for a mandatory waiting period for women wanting the procedure.Ann Winterton, a Conservative member of parliament from northwest England, plans to introduce a bill on June 5 requiring women seeking an abortion to receive counseling from a doctor or qualified professional. After getting information about possible alternatives and assistance that may be available, the woman would then have seven days to decide whether to go ahead with ending the pregnancy. Winterton told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday that her bill would give...

From 1993 to 1995, he served as president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the leading professional medical association for child psychiatrists with more than 7,500 members nationwide.A highly regarded child psychiatrist from San Mateo who once headed the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was arrested Thursday on 14 felony counts of child molestation, police said. Dr. William Ayres, 75, was arrested at his San Mateo home at about 6 p.m. after a four-year investigation into allegations he molested boy patients dating back to the late 1960s. "The real tragedy here is that parents entrusted...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 65 percent of consumers are spending more time with a computer than with their significant other, according to new independent research commissioned by support.com. Conducted by independent research firm Kelton Research, the "Cyber Stress" study confirmed consumers' growing relationship with technology in their everyday lives. In fact, more than 8 out of 10 Americans (84%) say they are more dependent on their home computer now than they were just three years ago(1). Like any relationship, the test comes not when things are going well but when times are tough. And unfortunately in the...

Jennifer Hernandez walked in still unsure how the rest of her life would unfold. At age 19, would she give up college to raise her baby? Or would she abort, the ultimatum her boyfriend made. Hernandez, of Sunrise, left Hope Pregnancy Centers knowing what she would do. "It was the biggest decision I have ever made," said Hernandez, now 31. "In retrospect, I would do it all over again." Like most women counseled at the local crisis pregnancy centers, Hernandez decided to keep her son. There's no mistaking how the Hope Pregnancy Centers -- like the estimated 4,000 centers across...

Welcome to Counseling Dear Abby/Dolly will be a 3-4 times a year part of our Weekend singles Thread. Questions will come from YOU. Answers will come from Me… and you on the thread. Please kick in with your thoughts, disagreements, and personal stories. We can learn from each other.. And now.. ON WITH THE SHOW! Whew.. There are a boat load of questions & “situations” here which I will try to address. Good mental health involves being comfortable in one’s skin (even if it is less than perfect, ugly, repulsive, fat, skinny, deformed). Take a look at drop dead...

VANCOUVER -- Lesbian teens are nearly five times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual girls, according to a survey presented at a national conference of public health experts in Vancouver Monday. The survey found 38 per cent of lesbian girls and 30.4 per cent of bisexual girls said they had attempted suicide in the previous year, compared with 8.2 per cent of heterosexual girls. The results were from a 2003 survey of 30,000 students between grades 7 and 12 done by the B.C.-based McCreary Centre Society, which asked students if they had attempted suicide in the previous year. By...

Are you a teen? Do you often feel sad or guilty for no reason? Do you feel worthless? Have you lost your confidence? If so, you might be suffering from teen depression. About 5 percent of children and adolescents in the United States suffer from depression at some time. Signs of depression might include: suicidal thoughts or even attempts at suicide. Other signs include decreased interest in activities, persistent boredom, social isolation, low self esteem, and extreme sensitivity to rejection or failure. If you have noticed these signs, it is time to seek help. Depression is not an illness on...

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2006 – With high operational tempos and multiple deployments increasingly becoming the norm, more servicemembers and their families are seeking counseling services, the Pentagon's family policy chief said. DoD started expanding its array of counseling services shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, to help counter the stress military service places on servicemembers and their families, particularly during wartime, Barbara Thompson, director of DoD's Office of Family Policy said, told American Forces Press Service. The result is a vast family-assistance counseling network that emphasizes problem solving and communications skills that help individuals and families get through difficult times....

...........Relatively few public schools address children's emotional needs as much as Sarah Greenwood, a school serving kindergarten through Grade 8 where virtually every child attends group therapy sessions starting in the sixth grade. In Dennery's counseling center, children debate the effects of bullying, explore their identities, and learn to distinguish clinical depression from mere sadness. Dennery also provides teacher training as well as individual counseling, and she can quickly refer children with deeper troubles to psychiatrists or other specialists at Children's Hospital. The point of Dennery's work is to get children to talk about problems that may be caused or...

ANTI-ABORTION pregnancy counselling services masquerading as 24-hour independent emergency health lines have been attacked for misleading and deceptive advertising. Democrats senator Natasha Stott Despoja said the government-funded community groups "misled" women who called seeking impartial and objective advice. Senator Stott-Despoja will introduce a private member's bill this week to make it mandatory for pregnancy counselling services to outline their stance on abortions in all advertising. The move comes amid growing concern from pregnancy support agencies that increased funding be spent on independent services, not hijacked by anti-abortion or pro-choice lobby groups. The Howard Government is considering making Medicare funding available...

<p>A chaplain at Rikers Island has been banned from counseling inmates because of his ties to a Brooklyn mosque linked to al Qaeda fund-raising.</p> <p>Amin Awad, who was named president of the board of trustees at Al-Farooq mosque earlier this month, cannot have contact with inmates and has been reassigned to administrative duties, Tom Antenen, a spokesman for the city Department of Correction, said yesterday.</p>

Michael McManus hopes to bring the Marriage Savers to Wyoming By Cara Eastwood rep4@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Marriage in the United States is in trouble, and Michael McManus thinks he knows how to fix it. The nationally-syndicated religion columnist has developed a program, called the Marriage Savers, that he says has helped drastically reduce divorce rates in more than 150 cities. If a September meeting with local religious leaders goes well, Cheyenne might be the next city to join in the effort to help build stronger marriages. The Rev. Kurt Borgaard of First Christian Church joined...

Doing What No Man Can Do by: John MacArthur and Wayne Mack, Editors I think it's no exaggeration to say that the Christian counseling scene today is in total shambles. I'm not talking about true Christian counseling–that which trusts the Bible and the power of the Holy Spirit to conform a person to Christ–that kind of counseling has been successfully changing sinners since the apostolic age. I'm talking about pseudo-counseling–the attempt to fix people with a blend of secular psychological theory and the Bible. But have integrationist counselors affected any real change among evangelical Christians? Are people really fixed? It...

<p>If Paul Hill dies by lethal injection Wednesday in Florida as scheduled, many will debate what led to the first abortion violence-related execution in the United States.</p> <p>They'll take measure of Hill's passionate, intractable beliefs. His days of showing up outside abortion clinics. His appearances on national television to defend the shooting of abortion doctors as "justifiable homicide." His saying that God told him to kill a doctor outside that Pensacola abortion clinic in 1994.</p>

Firefighters want chaplains dumpedSay Christian members too influential, file lawsuit to have program disbanded Posted: May 26, 200310:02 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Six California firefighters have gone to federal court in an attempt to have the chaplain program ended at the state agency for which they work, reports the New York Times. The government employees say the chaplains' corps of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention violates the Constitution by mixing church and state. According to the Times report, the mid-level officers brought the suit earlier this year, saying the corps is made up of almost exclusively Christians and...

The widow of a West Virginia soldier killed in Afghanistan wants grief counseling. but is having trouble getting it from support groups for nine-eleven victims. Lisa Vance's husband, Gene, was the first West Virginian killed in Afghanistan. He was killed in May 2002 during an attack by al-Qaida and Taliban forces. The Morgantown woman says six organizations have refused her request for emotional support and counseling and blatantly told her she wasn't a victim of 9-11. Vance says she hasn't had financial difficulties after losing her husband and isn't interested in money from the September Eleventh groups. A Red Cross...

HOW MOM TEACHES DAUGHTER TO YELL AT DAD J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB 1984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME It is very, very subtle — over time, involving complicated life situations, supported by fem bonding, allowing for anti-male emotions, pulling from the baser nature of the female, and so forth. Writing about this subject can be raw and refined. The refined part has to do with psychology and ethics. The raw part has to do with real life — madness, meanness, and basically lack of respect for father / husband. So let’s start with the bottom...

<p>Citing state law, Roseville's board won't mandate parental notice for students seeking confidential care.</p> <p>Sex, Christianity and "natural law" were all elements in a discussion Tuesday night at the meeting of the Roseville Joint Union High School District board of trustees. The trustees were debating a controversial policy that requires schools to release students from campus for confidential medical appointments without notifying parents -- a policy mandated by state law.</p>

washingtonpost.com Two Studies Raise Doubts on Trauma Counseling's ValueAnalyses: Debriefings Don't Help, And May Harm, Mental Health By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff WriterFriday, September 6, 2002; Page A12 Counseling sessions frequently given to survivors immediately after disasters, such as the debriefings given to people traumatized by the Sept. 11 attacks, do nothing to prevent psychiatric disorders and may even be harmful, according to two comprehensive analyses released yesterday. Though debriefing has been embraced by officials and a range of practitioners, there is little evidence that recipients' long-term mental health is better than people who get no counseling, or those...

Because of the bias manner in which homosexuality is portrayed by the media, the general public has little understanding of the true nature of the homosexual lifestyle. Most have been deceived into believing the average homosexual lives a perfectly normal and healthy way of life.

As Congress prepares to renew the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, which expires later this year, President George W. Bush is pressing for the bill to include $300 million for states to develop programs to promote marriage. Some states, including Michigan, West Virginia, Utah, and Oklahoma, already have programs in place. Research has shown that a healthy marriage is good emotionally, physically, and financially for both children and parents, and Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating has said that the goal of his state's program is to ease the economic burdens caused by out-of-wedlock births and divorce. "If we could hold some of...