RE: Trump administration announces conscience and religious freedom HHS Division
January 19, 2018 at 1:17 pm
The only way I see this being reasonable is with a mental health counselor turning down a gay person as a client. If the counselor believes homosexual activity and gay marriage are immoral, he may not be able to be fully objective while a gay client is talking to him about relationship issues and seeking help for struggles with homosexuality, etc. At which point, turning down the gay client and directing him to a more suited counselor would be the right thing to do, to avoid any sort of bias and inadequate treatment.
This should be legal of course. And already kind of happens within the mental health profession. Example: my sister is having issues in her marriage so she started seeing a therapist to help deal with her end of things. After several sessions, she wanted to bring her husband to that same therapist to get help for him too, and eventually do couples counseling. The therapist turned down treating her husband and treating them together as a couple. Since he already knew her side of the story too much, he said he would run the risk of not being fully objective when counseling her husband, so he set them up with a different therapist in the office.
Does this mean now that it's going to fly in courts if a dentist were to refuse to clean a gay patient's teeth? Or if a brain surgeon refuses to remove a brain tumor from a lesbian? Or if an emergency room doctor refuses to save the life of the transgender person who just got rushed in with gun shot wounds? Simply because of these people's sexuality? I'll believe it if I see it I suppose.
This should be legal of course. And already kind of happens within the mental health profession. Example: my sister is having issues in her marriage so she started seeing a therapist to help deal with her end of things. After several sessions, she wanted to bring her husband to that same therapist to get help for him too, and eventually do couples counseling. The therapist turned down treating her husband and treating them together as a couple. Since he already knew her side of the story too much, he said he would run the risk of not being fully objective when counseling her husband, so he set them up with a different therapist in the office.
Does this mean now that it's going to fly in courts if a dentist were to refuse to clean a gay patient's teeth? Or if a brain surgeon refuses to remove a brain tumor from a lesbian? Or if an emergency room doctor refuses to save the life of the transgender person who just got rushed in with gun shot wounds? Simply because of these people's sexuality? I'll believe it if I see it I suppose.
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