The Like/Hate Thread

[Ashe]

Its not so much about racism. Its a girl who was going for her degree in being a counselor and wanted the right to discriminate against homosexuals in schools to which she was employed by referring them out or refusing to help them. The school offered her the chance to take courses to be more aware and accepting of people, she refused. They denied her the degree, she immediately sued them on the grounds of religious discrimination against her right to discriminate. The claim being made that they insisted she "stop being Christian and change her belief while holding her degree hostage" (paraphrased as I don't have the article up).

It got blown way up and ended up on national news. Lots of local people are condemning the school for "attacking her religion" while the school (which to note has many more Judeo-Christian based groups than other religion/nonreligion groups, of which I don't think there are ANY at this exact moment active) maintains that they never even mentioned her beliefs and simply wish to apply the same standards to her that they will to anyone else and not give her differential treatment, be it good or bad.

I'm sure it'd be easy to google up the name and find some local papers about it (The Augusta Chronicle being the big local one, which is written pretty heavily in favor of her side of it).