Does a public university have the right to prohibit someone from a particular program based on their personal beliefs? Is that a violation of the first amendment?
Well, if that student is trying to impose those beliefs on others and those beliefs violate the code of ethics of the profession she’s trying to join, then yes, the school has the right to prohibit the student from the program. Would it make sense to keep someone out of a program if they refused to counsel black people? Immigrants? Christians? I would think so.
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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steveonfilm
July 28, 2010 at 10:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Isn’t this kind of like a doctor who doesn’t believe in anesthesia?