Bible Belt Coming Unbuckled

Her name is Jennifer Keeton.  She is a graduate student at Augusta State University in Georgia.  She wants to be a counselor when she graduates, "helping strengthen and prepare young people for the challenges they will face."

She has been told by the campus, that she will not be allowed to graduate unless she changes her beliefs.  She has been ordered to undergo a re-education program that will force her to attend diversity and sensitivity training, including attending gay-pride marches, and writing papers, telling how she felt after the event.

We've been told we are no longer allowed to pray before football games.  We've been told if you have a Bible on your desk, you can be fired for it.  Now, public colleges are threatening to expel students if they do not agree with whatever the college decides they want you to believe.

Private companies and even private colleges have the right to choose who they would like to serve.  A public college is not guaranteed that right.

If a homosexual had been turned away from Augusta State because he was gay, there would be national uproar.  What happened to equal treatment?  Why is it okay to punish one person because they believe "A", and not punish another because they believe "B"?

We in America have freedom of religion.  That means the government does not have the right to force any religion on its people.  It does not mean that no one is allowed to practice their religion if it could possibly offend anyone anywhere. 

You choose to believe what you want.  I accept that.  I may not agree with you, but I support your right to have your belief.  I can even have wonderful discussions with you about our beliefs, and why we believe that way.  But if you have the right to believe in evolution, that homosexuality is right, or that we all are nothing but lumps of organic matter, then I have a right to believe in Creation, that there is right and wrong, and that God loved me enough to die on a cross for me.

Augusta State University does not have the right to take your money, and then decide you can't graduate because you don't believe the way they want you to believe.  Neither do they have the right to force that upon Jennifer Keeton.

Where are the equal rights?