Jennifer Keeton Loses Fight To Counsel Her Anti-Gay Views
By On Top Magazine Staff
Published: December 20, 2011

http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=10404&MediaType=1&Category=26

Jennifer Keeton, the student fighting for her right to counsel her anti-gay views, has lost her legal challenge, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling in favor of Augusta State University's decision to expel Keeton from its counseling program.

Keeton sued the university last year after they declared her anti-gay beliefs incompatible with the counseling profession. She argued that professors had violated her rights to free speech and the free exercise of her faith.

Am I reading this right? Isn't Augusta State in Georgia?

If I'm keeping score correct, isn't this two legal victories in the south in recent months?

(Also, doesn't she look remarkably like Anne Coulter?)

I think she looks scarily like Tammy Faye (it's the eye makeup). I'm impressed with her college for taking its stance against her. Good on them, and good on the state and federal system for upholding their ethical values as teachers of therapists.

Either you just dated yourself, Padme, or shown how out of touch with mainstream culture I am.

Some things you don't forget easily...





Oh, and it's Padma - Natalie Portman I ain't .

Appeals Court Rejects Christian Student's Bid for Reversal of Her Expulsion


December 19, 2011, 4:55 am


http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/appeals-court-rejects-christian-students-bid-for-reversal-of-her-expulsion/39257


A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a lower court's ruling against a graduate student who had sought a court order preventing Augusta State University from expelling her from its school-counseling program.

The student, Jennifer Keeton, sued the Georgia university in July 2010, saying that it had violated her rights to free speech and the free exercise of her Christian faith when it told her that, in order to stay in the program, she would have to change her beliefs about homosexuality—that it is immoral, unnatural, and a "lifestyle choice" that can be reversed through "conversion therapy."