Christianity is the new secondhand smoke. Sure the libs will tell you, you’re allowed to smoke but if anyone else sees it, smells it, or inhales it, then it’s illegal.
The ever expanding public sphere will similarly say that you can worship Jesus in Church and in the privacy of your own home but not out in public where Jesus may infect others.
The video below tells the story of a woman pursuing her Master’s degree in counseling at a taxpayer-supported university who was expelled from a counseling program for refusing to affirm and support homosexual behavior.
The school essentially told her that you can’t be a practicing Christian and a counselor at the same time. Check it out.
April 28, 2010 at 3:54 am
In college, I was an RA (at a state university) and was basically told that, as an RA, I had to accept homosexuality. I replied that I would certainly show care for any student that was a homosexual, however I would not condone that lifestyle.
Everyone looked at me like I had three heads. They couldn't believe what I was saying.
The irony here is that these are the same crew that professed being "pro-choice" as well.
April 28, 2010 at 4:54 am
So I'd guess this proves, "Diversity is great, as long as you're not unfashionably diverse."
Noted.
April 28, 2010 at 2:39 pm
This is a state university. I'd encourage her to sue them. Unfortunately, I also think that this university (and others) would be willing to defy the courts if the rulings don't go their way, up to and including SCOTUS.
April 28, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Everyone looked at me like I had three heads. They couldn't believe what I was saying.
I'm not surprised. I got my first whiff of it in the 90's before I was a convert. Everybody serious about the faith needs to get used to being a backnumber. The treasury of goodwill that Christians have enjoyed has run dry. To everyone I would suggest to learn what the Church teaches (on this topic, burn this document in your brain), add up the cost like Our Lord says, and decide if you are willing to pay it.
April 28, 2010 at 5:45 pm
This is true. My husband is a Mental Health Counselor. He is not able to help any client or their family members with homosexuality. One case was very difficult for him. He had a young girl, 17, who still lived home with her parents. The girl had been in foster care, living with a homosexual couple. During that time, she was encouraged to experiment with homosexual behavior. The parents were desperate and wanted to intervene. My husband wasn't even able to offer the parents support or resources. The young girl couldn't even be removed from the foster home. The parents, of course, were Christians. It was very difficult for my husband. He wanted to say so much but couldn't. We survive solely on his income. Taking a stand would have caused our family to be without and possibly never be able to find another job in this field. I strongly advise anyone with any Christian convictions at all to avoid the field of Pyschology all together, unless they are working on a PhD–then you can pretty much do what you want. The homosexual activists specifically targeted the Pyschology profession until the APA removed homosexuality from the DSM. By 1980, homosexuality was no longer considered a pyschological disorder. Thus, NO mental health counselor can advise a homosexual, even one who wishes to stop the behavior, to abstain or revert.
April 28, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I work in academia (aka higher indoctrination), this doesn't come as a surprise.
April 28, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Richard John Neuhaus said it perfectly some years ago: "As many have had occasion to observe, the one thing no tolerated on today's diversity-obsessed campuses is diversity on the questions that matter to those in charge." Suggesting anything more isn't just naive–it's dangerous.
Fr. Martin Farrell, o.p.
April 28, 2010 at 10:29 pm
I know plenty of mental health counselors who do what they want within their practices, as believing Catholics and Christians. They are clear from the beginning about their views of homosexuality and they advise their clients in that manner. So far, no one has come into any kind of trouble in their private practice, but they are aware that that could change at any moment.
April 29, 2010 at 1:42 am
None of this is a surprise to those of us who work in academia. It is a deeply hostile environment.
But it is profoundly disturbing, and it constitutes persecution.
April 29, 2010 at 2:38 pm
I remember when this first came out. This woman is suing and good on her!
Turns out she never met or contacted the homosexual student she was to counsel. Rather, she asked her superiors to reassign the case as she feared she could not counsel him in the pro-homosexual way he wished. The homosexual student never needed to know the reasons why his case was reassigned and would have been spared all embarrassment had this not become public after her removal from the program. So, two people were unnecessarily harmed here- the rights of the counseling student for sure, but also the right to privacy of the homosexual student as well.
Yay diversity…
April 29, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Jen – my co-blogger was my RA once upon a long(ish) time ago, and ran into the same thing when my incoming roommate asked him where the nearest Catholic Church was. He thought, well, if he were pregnant, or a junkie, or a lesbian, or all three at once, I've been told fifteen things for him to do – but not ONCE in all my RA training was I given an answer to this question.