07/28/10

Diversity and Tolerance

By: T F Stern
T F Stern’s Rantings

A leading headline this week has to do with Julea Ward, a student expelled from Eastern Michigan University’s graduate student counseling program because she held to her Christian belief that homosexuality was not moral. I guess this falls into the left’s all encompassing “diversity and tolerance” unless that diversity and tolerance has to include Christian values.

“The university contended she violated school policy and the American Counseling Association code of ethics.”

U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh didn’t agree with the lawsuit filed by Julea Ward; instead finding for Eastern Michigan University and upholding the expulsion. Jeremy Tedesco, legal counsel for the conservative Alliance Defense Fund said, “It’s a very dangerous precedent,” the court’s decision “upholding an extremely broad and vague university speech code.”

God’s laws are restrictive and not conducive to many activities condoned by a diverse segment of our morally bankrupt society. Is it any wonder that an institution run by the left would find Christian values incompatible?

The American Counseling Association’s stated mission is to “enhance the quality of life in society by promoting the development of professional counselors, advancing the counseling profession and using the profession and practice of counseling to promote respect for human dignity and diversity.”

It might have been a momentary flux on my computer’s monitor; but the word “diversity” appeared to make the whole sentence sag, as if it out-weighed everything else. We must have diversity; nothing humans do can be judged as sinful because there is no sin. Those who claim there is a God are mean spirited and make people feel bad.

“… if there was no law given against sin men would not be afraid to sin.” Alma 42:20

There are many who claim the time for America to call itself a Christian nation has passed, that we’ve risen intellectually and have no need for such a crutch. This is what happens to a nation when it lowers its standards in order to be diverse and tolerant.

This article has been cross posted to The Moral Liberal, a publication whose banner reads, “Defending The Judeo-Christian Ethic, Limited Government, & The American Constitution.”

07/28/10

Financial News Update – 07/28/2010

CBO Says There’s No Way to Predict Fiscal Crisis

SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure

US Faces ‘Disaster’ from Financial Reform Bill, Bachmann Warns

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Tim Geithner Doesn’t Get The Budget Or Our Currency

Romanian Prime Minister: We’re Going To Tax Your Planes, Boats, And Automobiles

The Great Decoupling Of Corporate Profits From Jobs

Nassim Taleb: The Next Black Swan Is The Gigantic Ponzi Scheme Of Government Debt

The Chinese Banking System Is Seriously At Risk

How The Latest Earnings Will Only Create More Rage At Corporate America

BP to cut U.S. tax bill by $10 billion because of losses in gulf spill

Congress clears war funding

Local Governments Cutting Jobs and Services–Job losses projected to approach 500,000 (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Now Get Ready For The Massive Rush Into ONSHORE Drilling

Here’s The One Housing Market That Actually Got Worse In May

VIDEO: Small Business Owners Fight Obamacare in Court

Credit Cards Take From Poor, Give to the Rich (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

New Controversy: Financial Reform Bill Contains Quotas For Minority Hiring On Wall Street (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Jim Rogers predicts a new recession in 2012 (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Is It a Deflationary Depression?

Bought and Paid For Gov. Finds Doing Right Thing Hard

New Chart Reveals the Impossible Complexity of Obamacare

Tax Calculator Tells You What You’ll Pay With and W/O Bush Tax Cuts

Dan Juneau On Impact of Oil Moratorium on Citizens of Louisiana

Hide-and-seek hypocrites on the Hill

Fallen Soldiers’ Families Denied Cash as Insurers Profit

Defense Dept. can’t account for $8.7 billion

CBO BOMB: ‘Deficits will cause debt to rise to unsupportable levels’

Cost of debt skyrocketing

Lobbyists, unions paying Rangel’s legal bills

$11,000 cake for Chelsea’s $5 million wedding

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GE pays $23m after Iraq probe; Deal settles allegations of bribery

SurvivalBlog:

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