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**Effopsytupt** · 10-05-2011, 07:30 PM

If she indeed tried to get a client help from a more amenable councelor, good for her, but if I was her employer, why would I keep someone on my staff who couldn't do their job?
I'm not sure what the code of ethics is for the ACA, I'm not that familiar with them, but I would imagin that its along the lines of not letting personal beliefs interfer with your professional judgment. So yeah, screw her. If your job is to help people and you only want to help certain people, don't be surprised when you're shit canned.

I think you hit on the key point right here. Employment at Will. If it is in the policy of the organization to provide services and not exclude the homosexual community (and with current social consciousness towards this issue, I find it doubtful they wouldn't have a policy like that) then there is every reason to terminate the employment of an employee who refuses to adhere to it. She really has no legal precedent upon which she can display a "right" to work there. If that's her feelings on the issue, very well, try your luck with another organization who doesn't have that policy, if such an organization exists these days. Try her luck in the community of her church denomination maybe? I wonder if she'd deny counseling services to an individual if they revealed they engaged in other "sinful activities", if so then at least she'd be consistent, but I doubt it.

10-05-2011, 07:30 PM	#6
Effopsytupt Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	If she indeed tried to get a client help from a more amenable councelor, good for her, but if I was her employer, why would I keep someone on my staff who couldn't do their job? I'm not sure what the code of ethics is for the ACA, I'm not that familiar with them, but I would imagin that its along the lines of not letting personal beliefs interfer with your professional judgment. So yeah, screw her. If your job is to help people and you only want to help certain people, don't be surprised when you're shit canned. I think you hit on the key point right here. Employment at Will. If it is in the policy of the organization to provide services and not exclude the homosexual community (and with current social consciousness towards this issue, I find it doubtful they wouldn't have a policy like that) then there is every reason to terminate the employment of an employee who refuses to adhere to it. She really has no legal precedent upon which she can display a "right" to work there. If that's her feelings on the issue, very well, try your luck with another organization who doesn't have that policy, if such an organization exists these days. Try her luck in the community of her church denomination maybe? I wonder if she'd deny counseling services to an individual if they revealed they engaged in other "sinful activities", if so then at least she'd be consistent, but I doubt it.
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