Beliefs for some but not for all.
Via The College Fix:
School also required him to recant his beliefs, enroll in remediation, suit says
A recently filed lawsuit against Missouri State University alleges the school kicked a Christian student out of its master’s degree program for saying he would not counsel gay couples because of his religious beliefs.
Plaintiff Andrew Cash’s approach to counseling “is centered on his core beliefs, values and
Christian worldview and these would not be congruent with the likely values and needs of a gay couple who, for these reasons, would be best served by a counselor sharing their core value system and core beliefs,” the lawsuit states.Cash said he would, however, counsel homosexuals individually for things like anxiety and depression. But that was not good enough for Missouri State, according to the lawsuit, which says school officials claimed his stance contradicted the American Counseling Association’s code of ethics as discriminatory.
The counseling department internship coordinator told Cash to leave his Christian counseling internship and required him to read and comment on an article titled “Implications for Refusing to Counseling Homosexual Relationships” as a condition for determining whether he was suitable to return to any internship, the suit adds.
Even though Cash went along with the mandates — even finding a new place to intern — school officials required him to take numerous and onerous steps to appease their concerns with his views, such as retake classes and discount all his previous hours of volunteer counseling at a Christian office.
Cash, who had a 3.8 grade-point average and no other disciplinary marks on his record, repeatedly appealed these demands, until in November 2014 he was removed from the program, the lawsuit states.