Court rules student counselors must 'affirm' gay clients

On July 27th, a federal judge upheld the right of a counseling program at Eastern Michigan University to kick out a master's student who declined to counsel gay clients in an affirming way — as required by the university program and counseling associations. The judge found that the university was enforcing a legitimate curricular requirement — namely that counseling students learn to work with all kinds of clients in ways that did not judge their values or orientations.

[Hedonist]

What's even more interesting is to read how FoxNews slanted the story --

"http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/28/court-un... ;

[Hedonist]

And there is a similar issue going on in Augusta, Georgia.

Here's NBC's take on it -- "http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/georgia/Studen... ;

And, again, the FoxNews spin -- "http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/27/georgia-... ;

[nina]

spin is an amazing thing