*brb loling 4ever*

[teleen_fiction]

Ku Klux Klan Plans Rally To Support Anti-Gay Counseling Student.

I shouldn't be laughing, but seriously?  I have to wonder if the fact that the KKK is holding a rally in her honor might not be enough to show this young woman that her path is not the right one.  

If the KKK held a rally in my honor I'd be out in front of it with a change of my entire belief structure faster than you can say "Gay Marriage"!

If this doesn't cause her to seriously re-examine her life and the choices she's made therein, I weep for her future and the future of all those like her.

ETA: Someone on facebook pointed out that she should see it as a 'sign'... 

Comments

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

This is probably incredibly naive of me but I had no idea the KKK still *existed* (possibly because I only heard about it in High School history classes)

But agreed being supported by them would make me go "wait what?!" - but who knows howsomeone who is anti-gay and wants to be a counselor in a society where this could be an issue people want (supportive!) counseling about thinks :S

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

They still exist, sigh. My friend, who is both Asian and a cab driver in Las Vegas told me that recently he had a couple of guys from Down South who were looking for the KKK meeting that was being held in Vegas. They were looking for it online and were holding up the cab line, so when two black women who *were* ready to go came up and asked him to go, he took them instead.

I found it amazing that they had the guts to ask an Asian cab driver where the Klan meeting was, *headdesk*.

And you're right - her way of thinking is so far outside what's reasonable that for all I know she's a KKK member herself, :(.

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* people >< :(

(yeah forgot to hit post ^^)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Indeed, sigh.

:)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

When the KKK rally to support you, you know you've screwed up

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

One would hope that that's the case, however, I haven't seen any sort of response from the student in question denouncing this, :(. I went looking before I responded to your comment and nope, nothing, :(.

Everything I've seen from her thus far makes me tend to believe that while she wouldn't necessarily be a member of the KKK, she's not going to actually denounce their support of her because she seems to agree with them, :(.

It's really, really sad that someone who is supposedly supporting a religion that's ostensibly based on love is so keen to hate 10% of the population for no good reason at all, :(,

[slave-prince03.livejournal.com]

Ok, while I 120% disagree with the woman's pov and I agree with the college completely that her position on homosexuality (and presumably bisexuality) is incompatible with the standards of her chosen profession as a counsellor (and yay them for stating that), I completely disagree with the way it sounds like they attempted to change her beliefs. Her beliefs may be wrong but she is entitled to them as long as she doesn't try to force them on others. So, the college shouldn't have tried to 're-educate' her with the diversity & sensitivity training etc, they should have simply told her that her views were not acceptable for her chosen course of study. The re-education thing is no more gonna work to change her from anti-gay to pro-gay than it would be to turn someone who is pro-gay to anti-gay so giving her the option of going on the courses etc or leave wouldn't work (let's face it, she'd just pretend to have become all enlightened).

I agree with you though, when the KKK is holding a protest on your behalf, it's definitely time to examine your beliefs a little more closely.

A counsellor with those beliefs, who seems incapable of separating them from her professional career, could be incredibly damaging since she'd be dealing with people who are already in a vulnerable position.

*hugs*
Nate

[slave-prince03.livejournal.com]

Oh, I took out some words to reword them and then missed them out altogether *facepalms*.

...they should have simply told her that her views were not acceptable for her chosen course of study, and told her to either pick a different Masters and say bye bye (politely *grins*).

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I understood, :). And I agree, :).

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I see what you're saying and I actually agree with the point that they shouldn't have tried to change her beliefs. However, they were trying to give her the opportunity to stay in the program and made it clear that the only way she could be a counselor is if she was willing to set aside her beliefs and be objective.

She couldn't, which made her incompatible with the college's course of study. Her argument that they were violating her First Amendment rights is fallacious because they actually weren't trying to what she believed only letting her know that if she couldn't set it aside for the good of her patients, she wouldn't be allowed to be a mainstream counselor.

A counsellor with those beliefs, who seems incapable of separating them from her professional career, could be incredibly damaging since she'd be dealing with people who are already in a vulnerable position.

Exactly, :(.

It wasn't so much that she believed that way - it was that she refused to set those beliefs aside for the good of her patients, :(.