Now in court: Student wants to conduct anti-gay counseling

[William769]

A federal appeals court in Atlanta this week is hearing the case of a Christian counseling student who alleges that her school unconstitutionally suspended her because she planned to tell her clients that being gay is morally wrong.

The Associated Press has been following the 1st Amendment case filed by Jennifer Keeton, a graduate school counseling student at Georgia's Augusta State University. The case was rejected last year by a district court judge and is before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

After enrolling in a graduate counseling program in fall 2009, Keeton, a devout Christian, began discussing how she wanted to engage in "conversion therapy," in which a counselor attempts to "cure" homosexuality, the news service reports.

Keeton was slated to do some counseling work at middle and high schools as a requirement for completion of her degree, and faculty members were worried that her ideas could be harmful to children.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/11/anti-gay-counseling-student.html

[HillWilliam]

1. Oh, for pity's sake, young lady

hate speech is *not* sanctioned under the First Amendment. Using thoroughly debunked junk-science to pester perfectly normal people is nothing less than bigotry, ignorance, and hatred in action.

Damned wackogelical fools.

[qb]

2. I want to conduct anti-anti-gay counseling.

And cure all the sick homophobes.