Jennifer Keeton is a graduate student at Augusta State University in Georgia. She is enrolled in the school counseling program, but has been told she will be expelled from the program unless she changes her beliefs about homosexuality and gender identity. Apparently, a remediation program was suggested to help her alter her beliefs. Welcome to the new America. While I support the right of homosexuals to be treated fairly in this country, the gay rights agenda will result in Christians being treated unfairly because of our disagreement with homosexuality. This is just the start.
Update 7/2/12: Keeton lost a court appeal.
Thinking to Believe 
July 28, 2010 at 2:54 am
Wow.
Just wow.
Although if it goes all the way to court, it will be an interesting case to follow especially with the “lifestyle” vs “state of being”
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July 28, 2010 at 10:04 am
[…] Incorrectness Leave a Comment In a situation almost identical to the one I described yesterday, Julea Ward was booted from the counseling program at Eastern Michigan University because she […]
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March 15, 2013 at 3:12 pm
I echo Scott’s sentiment. Wow.
It’s scary that she is being punished for expressing her beliefs and in a way as to “correct” her thinking. Fortunately there are many institutions that will take her in and not punish her for thought crimes. Now, I can understand that the university may insist that she not discriminate against patients. However, there is a distinction to be made between accepting a patient and between affirming or counselling behaviour that the counselor cannot support. In the latter case, the patient should simply be referred to another counsellor.
This is similar to the notion of conflict of interest in business. Sometimes you can’t involve yourself with something or someone and must legally or morally decline.
Is this not what counselors can and do already do on occasion? I’m pretty sure they can choose to turn away certain people if they are friends or relatives or otherwise present some sort of conflict of interest or moral dilemma. What if the counselor lost her parents in the Holocaust and had an ex-Nazi as a patiente? Surely she could conscientiously object.
I’ll advise any potential students of counselling I know of in the future to choose carefully an institution that will not force them to support something that goes against their moral judgement. Because these days, you never know.
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April 14, 2016 at 12:30 am
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