A “reeducation program”? Is that like a “reeducation camp”? That sounds oddly familiar, where have I heard of that sort of thing before?

It seems reasonable to expect the student to counsel all who need help. Indeed I would be concerned if the school attempted to prevent a student from counseling some people because of their conflicting beliefs. As part of the curriculum they should have professionals, including clergy of various faiths, go over how they can focus on the needs of the person being counseled and perform their duties without violating their own beliefs. A good counselor should be able to counsel someone they disagree with.

What misleading coverage of this story!

“Approval of homosexuality is therefore now compulsory in public universities.”

No. A student attempting to become a counselor must adhere to the standards established by the professional organization that administers certification. Chief among these standards is one that states that a counselor’s job is to serve the needs of his or her patient, and not to impose his or her own beliefs on them.

You feckless Christian zealots haven’t even thought through your own position on this matter. It cuts both ways! Do you want a Christian Scientists as our Pharmacist? one who refuses to dispense your prescription on religious grounds? How about a Satanist advising your kids on anger issues? Oh yeah, and your daughter’s counselor just happens to believe that every woman is essentially bisexual, so when she comes in distraught after a break-up with her boyfriend, sure, lets counsel her to reach out to a compassionate woman. Oh, your religion seems oppressive? look, young man, your Bible was written 3000 years ago by illiterate shepherds who wiped their @sses with leaves and twigs …

What misleading coverage of this story!

“Approval of homosexuality is therefore now compulsory in public universities.”

No. A student attempting to become a counselor must adhere to the standards established by the professional organization that administers certification. Chief among these standards is one that states that a counselor’s job is to serve the needs of his or her patient, and not to impose his or her own beliefs on them.

You feckless Christian zealots haven’t even thought through your own position on this matter. It cuts both ways! Do you want a Christian Scientists as our Pharmacist? one who refuses to dispense your prescription on religious grounds? How about a Satanist advising your kids on anger issues? Oh yeah, and your daughter’s counselor just happens to believe that every woman is essentially bisexual, so when she comes in distraught after a break-up with her boyfriend, sure, lets counsel her to reach out to a compassionate woman. Oh, your religion seems oppressive? look, young man, your Bible was written 3000 years ago by illiterate shepherds who wiped their @sses with leaves and twigs …

Been on this particular story (my neck of the woods ya know) since last year, and beat Fox to the punch: http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2010/07/eastern-michigan-university-student.html

Stacy,

I’d lay odds that a significant number of the graduates of EMU’s counseling program are in fact Christians. There’s no rule against being a Christian or even against thinking homosexual behavior is sinful, immoral, or even disgusting.

But they do require that participants in the program be prepared to meet the obligations of the profession they’re being trained for. Which includes counseling homosexuals.

There’s a difference between belief (or speech) and conduct. She can believe anything she wants.

There’s a difference between belief (or speech) and conduct. She can believe anything she wants.

“A student attempting to become a counselor must adhere to the standards established by the professional organization that administers certification”

Regrettably the Ivy-Inbred professionally organized by the thought-police to administer such certification are themselves so trapped inside their one collective thought that the term ‘pluralism’ is a foreign concept they are incapable of understanding.

No more funding for the State-controlled Ivy-Inbred Thought-Police.

TJ Parker and James Joyner

Though your illiberal discrimination is vulgar and hideous I would never take it upon myself to FORCE you into a State-controlled Sensitivity Training Gulag.

This this difference between your tyranny and my liberty, I believe in Pluralism while you Ivy-Inbred believe in Statism.

TJ Parker and James Joyner

Though your illiberal discrimination is vulgar and hideous I would never take it upon myself to FORCE you into a State-controlled Sensitivity Training Gulag.

This this difference between your tyranny and my liberty, I believe in Pluralism while you Ivy-Inbred believe in Statism.

I went to the same lowly regional state institution as our gracious host.

And the girl isn’t being forced into sensitivity training. She’s being offered that option as a way of learning to do the job she’s currently unqualified to do. She’s declined and free to go!

Indeed, she’s free to enroll in probably any other program at the university.

“I went to the same lowly regional state institution as our gracious host.”

A Statist-controlled institution-whether lowly or Ivy- remains the same one-collective indoctrination.

This is your illiberal problem-you have convinced yourself you are educated.

I realize you cannot relate to what I am saying because you have never experienced what life was like living in the former Soviet Union; you have become what I escaped.

james joyner needs to be thrown into a reeducation camp until he agrees and if doesn’t he deserves to be tortured see how that works scumtard

james joyner needs to be thrown into a reeducation camp until he agrees and if doesn’t he deserves to be tortured see how that works scumtard