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Ku Klux Klan Plans Rally for ASU Student’s Rights
The Augusta Chronicle
/October 5, 2010
The Ku Klux Klan will hold a rally in support of the Augusta State University counseling student who claims her First Amendment rights were violated when the school ordered her to learn more about the homosexual community.
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on October 7th, 2010 at 11:48 am
WOW, interesting. When I saw the initials “ASU,” I immediately thought Arizona State University, my alma mater – and wondered why in hell the KKK would be in Arizona – thank goodness we don’t have to deal with those FKING morons out west.
on October 7th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
No Marisa, you just have to deal with that OTHER MORON, Sheriff Joe :P
on October 7th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Now this is interesting. I am an instructor at a community college. No one can “force” a student to do anything. Going to college is a choice. Where to go to college is a choice. If she doesn’t like the requirements of her college, she can transfer.
Based on the article, I am assuming that this student is in a psychology, counseling or social work program. She made inappropriate comments about homosexuals and was told she has to take a remediation class. That is completely appropriate. No one is blocking her first amendment rights. She and the clan fail to recognize that freedom of speech does not = freedom of consequences based on your speech.
Psychologists, counselors and social workers are bound by a code of ethics, part of which is to not engage in discrimination. She doesn’t have to like the requirements of her college or her profession. She can leave or she can follow the same standards that all other students are bound by.
Good grief. This woman has such a sense of entitlement.
on October 7th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Keeton is a graduate student in the counseling program at ASU. Here is what cause Keeton to sue: http://chronicle.augusta.com/n.....on-lawsuit
“Professors asked Keeton to complete the remediation plan after she said she opposed homosexuality and would tell gay clients “their behavior is morally wrong and then help the client change that behavior,” according to an affidavit filed in the case.”
The college’s actions in this case are completely appropriate and absolutely necessary. It is the college’s job to require that students be able to meet the ethical guidelines of a grad students profession after grad school.
Keeton is claiming that the college is requiring her to change her religious beliefs!
Uh, no. In Aug, the Judge in the case stated:
“Hall said Keeton’s unwillingness to adhere to the school’s viewpoint-neutral code of ethics set by the American Counseling Association constitutes a refusal to complete the curriculum.” …….
‘”It was not (Keeton’s) personal beliefs that were their concern, but rather only her inability to separate her personal beliefs in the judgment-free zone of a professional counseling situation,”‘
The college’s actions are consistent with what any employer would require from an employee that violated company rules.
In Aug, Keeton’s lawyer stated : http://chronicle.augusta.com/n.....-bias-case
‘”(Keeton) understands the professional obligation to avoid imposing values,”‘…..
Obviously that is not true. She has blatantly said that she would tell a LBGT client that ‘”their behavior is morally wrong” and that she would “help the client change that behavior”. How she can claim that such comments wouldn’t impose her values on a client is beyond reason.
Keeton blatantly told her program that she didn’t want to work with LBGT clients. Well, she is in a counseling program at a public university. She can go to other programs.
Yesterday, Keeton claimed that she doesn’t support the Klan’s plan to protest: http://chronicle.augusta.com/n.....plan-rally
‘”Jennifer and the ADF are disgusted by the KKK and all it stands for,” ADF Senior Counsel David French said in the e-mail. “To say more than that or to discuss their activities at length risks bringing more attention to a failed organization that is seeking to exploit news stories for its own purposes. As the KKK admits in news reports, Jennifer has had no contact with them, and neither have we. Neither Jennifer nor ADF wish to give the KKK the attention it craves.”‘
Keeton will lose this case. Then she will either take the remedial class or she will be kicked out of the counseling program. It is her choice. She isn’t being asked to change her beliefs. She is being asked to conduct herself within the guidelines of her profession and college’s counseling program.
on October 8th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
so now one cannot even go to college with out the homosexual agenda getting shoved down the throat… now one can get deviant behavior shoved down the throat from grade school on up. so much for public college. this is brainwashing pure and simple forced on moral and natural thinking by deviant and unnatural people so much for majority rule.
already we are forced to get the shoah nonsense as gospel(YOU know the “holocaust”) . even jews do not think 6 million were not killed in germany just read “The History of the jews”. it is not a freedom speech issue. it is a freedom of thought issue. the thought police have gotten ahold of american schools. have any of you read brave new world and 1984?! try the protocols of the elders of zion
on October 8th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
A common misnomer is that the KKK doesn’t exist in the west. It does. Members may not stand on street corners wearing their hoods too often, but they do exist in abundance in the west. I have observed the KKK literally in hoods on street corners 20 years ago in CA. Recently I see the ‘Hitler’ Nazi gestures exchanged as well as numerous others signs and symbols. Remember that many members of the KKK are highly educated people. They won’t always ‘out’ themselves to nonmembers as it might jeopardize their high income professions. It’s more comfortable and less freightening for us to believe they don’t exist where we are than to really study and understand where and who they are.
on October 8th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Actually yes they do, the Republinazi KKK, Aryan Nations, National Vanguard, Save Our State, Minutemen, National Alliance et al. *do* stand on street corners in California and scream their insane anti-america Christian lunacy.
on October 9th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Marissa…look at the hate map the KKK among other hate groups reside in AZ. Hello…anti-immigration???
on October 16th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Thank you LMK for posting the link. I agree with the college one hundred percent. If she wants to be in counseling, she needs to know how to properly counsel ANYONE.
on May 25th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
DGM you are full of bs. It’s been decades since the KKK has had more than a few people out and about in California. And if anyone would know, I would.
Frederic, When I was in California at those big immigration marches it was the nonWhites who held signs saying ” kill Whitey” and it was the nonWhites who were threatening those of us standing up for the law and holding an American flag. It was also the antifa who had their faces covered with bandanas like little thugs, not the American patriots.