Sometimes it can be downright frustrating to watch people skirt around the major points of an issue. People who do not feel a need to consider the feelings of others often complain about things like diversity training and political correctness. Such things can be just as annoying when taken to an extreme, as the kinds of negativity they are meant to combat. Unfortunately, there will always be people who see no problem with trying to swat a gnat with a grenade launcher.
If you look at the case presented in this CNN piece, Jennifer Keeton seems to reasonably want to protect her religious and speaking freedoms. It is hard to argue with her assertion that the university has no right to force her to change her beliefs. However on just a cursory glance, it is obvious that no university wants to graduate a person with a psychology credential who lacks the professional discipline to shelve their personal beliefs in order to give a patient the full benefit of their academic training, without bias against the individual due to the psychologists religious beliefs. If the university allows such a person to graduate and thus represent its alumni, it could irreparably damage the institution’s reputation. A damaged reputation could have all kinds of negative ripple effects such as decreased desirability by businesses to employ its graduates, reduced funding, or fewer high quality applicants.
The university curriculum requires a student to receive training designed to provide exposure to walks of life that many of its students will never have encountered. However it does not require them to feel any particular way about gays as a condition of completing the class. For this reason, Ms. Keeton’s objections are baseless. If she could demonstrate that she was being forced to change her beliefs prior to being allowed to graduate, I would agree with her but as of now, I’d say she’s probably just trying to unseat 2009′s Fox News favorite Carrie Prejean as the new evangelical paragon of virtue. Can’t we just skip to the inevitable nude pictures and sex tapes, which should appear right about the time she runs out of bleach and her roots begin to show? Come on. You know that will happen right?
CNN: Gay Sensitivity Training
Sometimes it can be downright frustrating to watch people skirt around the major points of an issue. People who do not feel a need to consider the feelings of others often complain about things like diversity training and political correctness. Such things can be just as annoying when taken to an extreme, as the kinds of negativity they are meant to combat. Unfortunately, there will always be people who see no problem with trying to swat a gnat with a grenade launcher.
If you look at the case presented in this CNN piece, Jennifer Keeton seems to reasonably want to protect her religious and speaking freedoms. It is hard to argue with her assertion that the university has no right to force her to change her beliefs. However on just a cursory glance, it is obvious that no university wants to graduate a person with a psychology credential who lacks the professional discipline to shelve their personal beliefs in order to give a patient the full benefit of their academic training, without bias against the individual due to the psychologists religious beliefs. If the university allows such a person to graduate and thus represent its alumni, it could irreparably damage the institution’s reputation. A damaged reputation could have all kinds of negative ripple effects such as decreased desirability by businesses to employ its graduates, reduced funding, or fewer high quality applicants.
The university curriculum requires a student to receive training designed to provide exposure to walks of life that many of its students will never have encountered. However it does not require them to feel any particular way about gays as a condition of completing the class. For this reason, Ms. Keeton’s objections are baseless. If she could demonstrate that she was being forced to change her beliefs prior to being allowed to graduate, I would agree with her but as of now, I’d say she’s probably just trying to unseat 2009′s Fox News favorite Carrie Prejean as the new evangelical paragon of virtue. Can’t we just skip to the inevitable nude pictures and sex tapes, which should appear right about the time she runs out of bleach and her roots begin to show? Come on. You know that will happen right?
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