GEORGIA: Anti-Gay Counseling Student Jennifer Keeton Loses Suit Against School

A federal court in Georgia has ruled that Augusta State University acted properly when it expelled counseling student Jennifer Keeton for refusing to treat LGBT patients. Keeton and Michigan student Julea Ward, who has a similar case still pending, have become martyrs for the anti-gay hate industry. From the ruling:

Keeton’s conflation of personal and professional values, or at least her difficulty in discerning the difference, appears to have been rooted in her opinion that the immorality of homosexual relations is a matter of objective and absolute moral truth. The policies which govern the ethical conduct of counselors, however, with their focus on client welfare and self-determination, make clear that the counselor’s professional environs are not intended to be a crucible for counselors to test metaphysical or moral propositions. Plato’s Academy or a seminary the Counselor Program is not; that Keeton’s opinions were couched in absolute or ontological terms does not give her constitutional license to make it otherwise.