This Candidacy Will Self-Destruct in Five Seconds
Herman Cain.
Herman FRIGGING Cain!
Part of me wants to punch him in the nose. The other part of me wants to nominate him for Playboy’s Multi-Tasker of the Year.
Sad thing? I cannot think of a single political issue he has wrong. His only mistake was thinking that if three Kennedys, Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards and David Patterson could get away with it for so long, maybe he could too!
He seemed to forget that sex scandals just seem to make Democratic politicians sexier and more fun for their minions to support. For the GOP… not so much.
At least Newt Gingrich appears to have married every woman he ever had sex with. Eventually.
In the meantime, those of us who said we wouldn’t support Gingrich in his quest for the presidency are having to reassess our position.
The truth of the matter is that we, as a nation, are sinking into a deadly cesspool of massive debt and political cluelessness. The marital track record of the guy steering the only lifeboat that stands between us and oblivion ain’t so much on my mind right now.
As political conservatives, we either sail with an imperfect pilot, or we die.
Appeal in ASU Suit Likely Going Nowhere
Former Augusta State University graduate student Jennifer Keeton is appealing Federal Judge Randy Hall’s rejection of her religious discrimination lawsuit. In the suit, Keeton maintained that instructors Paulette Schenck and Mary Jane Anderson-Wiley ordered her to “change her beliefs” on the topic of homosexuality. Sources at ASU simply claimed the women did no such thing.
What they reportedly did do is tell Keeton that her admitted solution to dealing with a (hypothetical) troubled client expressing homosexual thoughts or behaviors, which was based on the Biblical concept that such actions are a sin and should be rejected, is to withhold her religious opinions in the course of such a case.
ASU maintained in their answer to the lawsuit that all Keeton’s instructors did was demonstrate their concern that her Christian views on homosexuality were not germane to the counseling tasks at hand, and that, in fact, offering solutions based on the counselor’s religious beliefs run contrary to the professional code of ethics all graduate students in counseling must embrace in order to receive a diploma. (That is the rule of the American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics, and it is a constant nationwide.)
The bottom line is that Schenck and Anderson-Wiley refuted Keeton’s version of events. It was argued ASU has never taken a stand where they urge any student to “change their beliefs,” nor would they.
The case attracted nationally known religious litigation specialists from the Alliance Defense Fund, and they got a lot of press in the process.
Of course, a disagreement between a student and teachers over what was said in class or in a meeting does not make a sexy, headline-grabbing story. A southern university ordering a God-fearing young student to embrace the ways of Sodom and Gomorrah, or face expulsion does. It certainly had the folks on the Fox News Sunday show couch all excited.
When this case originally played out (in Augusta 2010), I wrote the following in this space:
“I have a very conservative track record, and I have always defended those who are persecuted unjustly for their legitimate religious beliefs, as long as they are legal. I also have a very well known distaste for education bureaucracies, and the way they tend to steamroll past common sense in the effort to cover their behinds in the midst of a controversy.
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I don’t believe we have either scenario playing out here, and in due time that case will be made. The university and its people did nothing wrong, and Keeton’s concern is an overreaction, a misunderstanding based on their instruction to her to change her approach with clients in the workplace, not her personal beliefs.
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If ASU or its employees were really as “anti-Christian” as the ADF attorneys would have you believe, in Augusta, Georgia, they would have a helluva lot more people fighting them than just Jennifer Keeton. I would be one of them.”
I was right then, and on August 20, 2010, Judge Hall agreed with me. I believe our shared conclusions will be upheld as many times as the ADF cares to appeal them.You Might Also Like:
