There was an article in the paper recently that caught my eye but just briefly and I moved on until reading a column by Brian Dickerson in the Friday Free Press (3/18).
The original news item was about Michigan
It appears that a graduate student in counseling at Eastern University
I find this subject interesting because I actually know a councilor who received her degree from a religious school who also does not council gays among others she finds distasteful. I find this not only very hypocritical with regards to the Christian faith but I also find it quite unprofessional if you do call yourself a professional.
I find the same problem with pharmacists who will not honor doctor’s prescriptions for the morning after pill or any other medication that they think conflicts with their Christian faith. To me you are a pharmacist first and foremost and obligated to do your duty to dispense medications when asked to by a physician; if you don’t want to, get the hell out of that job.
To me the case was simple; a school has a curriculum and a set of requirements for graduation. If you can’t complete the requirements, you do not get a degree. The student’s case rests on her religious liberty which to me has nothing to do with the school’s requirements that are applied to everyone.
Bill Schuette’s name come up in Brian Dickerson’s article because he (as Michigan’s attorney general) files a friend of the court brief with the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Normally this is never done by a sitting attorney general but as Dickerson puts it, it is all done in the name of politics as I have maintained throughout. Schuette doesn’t give a shit about the student’s religious liberty, he just wants to be viewed as a man who religious Republican hardliners can count on.
Our last attorney general ran for governor and this one will also, just watch and see.
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