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Augusta State U. is accused of requiring a counseling student to accept homosexuality

By Alliance Alert

The Chronicle of Higher Education: "In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday . . . Jennifer Keeton argues that faculty members and administrators at the university have violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion by threatening with her expulsion if she does not fufill requirements contained in a remediation plan intended to get her to change her beliefs. ... David French, senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said: 'A public-university student shouldn't be threatened with expulsion for being Christian and refusing to publicly renounce her faith, but that's exactly what's happening here. Simply put, the university is imposing thought reform.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).