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[Rick Duncan]

Steve, my guess is that ADF would not condemn a public
university for respecting an "opt out" for an atheist counselor, 
so long as the University respected other religious conscience claims.

To try to answer your more difficult hypo, the University should protect both the
conscience claim of the counselor and the right of the patient to receive appropriate
counseling. This is exactly why both Christian and atheist students should be welcome
in the counseling program. The more religious diversity you have among counselors,
the easier it is to accommodate everyone.

But what do you do with the patient who comes in and says "I am struggling with
homosexual feelings and I want help overcoming these feelings. I am a person of faith
who wants to live in accordance with my faith." How should a public university help this student?

Rick Duncan 
Welpton Professor of Law 
University of Nebraska College of Law 
Lincoln, NE 68583-0902





      
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