Student Refuses Remediation
An Eastern Michigan University student has been formally dismissed from a graduate program because she has refused to undergo "remediation" to help her "see the error of her ways."
According to Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Jeremy Tedesco, Julea Ward refused to affirm a counseling client's homosexual behavior. "What we have here is a Christian who is a student in a master's counseling degree program who was dismissed, kicked out of the school, simply because she was unwilling to violate her own religious beliefs in not advocating for homosexual behavior within the context of the counseling relationship," he said.
Ward referred the client to another counselor — who did not take issue with homosexual behavior — upon a supervising professor's suggestion. Still, the school said she could stay in the counseling program only if she would undergo a "remediation" program to reconstruct her belief system and help her "see the error of her ways." Ward refused. Tedesco believes the school is guilty of religious and viewpoint discrimination.
Ward underwent a formal hearing that concluded with her dismissal from the counseling program on March 12 and appealed the decision to the dean of the College of Education, who upheld the dismissal on March 26. Alliance Defense Fund has filed suit on her behalf. [OneNewsNow.com]
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