{"id":2300,"date":"2011-10-05T14:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2011-10-05T14:41:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T19:41:58","slug":"6th-circuit-hearing-arguments-in-julea-wards-emu-case-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/6th-circuit-hearing-arguments-in-julea-wards-emu-case-today","title":{"rendered":"6th Circuit hearing arguments in Julea Ward&#8217;s EMU case today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FOX NEWS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An attorney for a graduate student claiming she was wrongfully dismissed from her counseling job at a Michigan college because she refused to work with gay and bisexual clients argued in federal court Tuesday that his client was discriminated against because of her religious beliefs &#8212; while the school insists her actions violated school policy.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati heard arguments in the case involving Julea Ward, a <span style=\"color: blue;\">Detroit<\/span>-area public school teacher. In July 2010, a federal judge dismissed Ward&#8217;s lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University (EMU) after the school successfully contended she violated school policy and the American Counseling Association&#8217;s code of ethics, which forbids counselors from discrimination in clinical practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/10\/05\/appeals-court-to-hear-case-graduate-student-dismissed-for-refusing-to-work-with\/\" target=\"_blank\">FULL STORY HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FOX NEWS: An attorney for a graduate student claiming she was wrongfully dismissed from her counseling job at a Michigan college because she refused to work with gay and bisexual clients argued in federal court Tuesday that his client &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/6th-circuit-hearing-arguments-in-julea-wards-emu-case-today\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}