Does one have the right to freedom of conscience? Does one have a right to turn over a client to another qualified person because of personal convictions? Or is one required to support the society’s “established” norms despite their own objections? The answers to this could lead to the removal of a number of positions available to Christians in the culture whether by choice or intimidation.
MI State Rep Tom McMillin is trying to do something about it in Michigan. Read on.
Michigan State Representative Tom McMillin has introduced a resolution dealing with a Christian’s right to stand behind her religious beliefs.
Julea Ward was a part of the Eastern Michigan University Graduate School of Counseling. With only two months left until graduation with a master’s degree, she was dismissed for declining on religious grounds to provide counseling to a homosexual who was trying to improve his relationship with his partner.
“I was just calling on Eastern Michigan University to end this kind of discrimination based on somebody’s religious beliefs, and ask our state’s attorney general to conduct an investigation to see if her civil rights were violated, which certainly appears to be [the case],” Representative McMillan contends, noting that the resolution is gaining bipartisan support.
via At issue: Students’ religious rights in graduate program (OneNewsNow.com) .
