{"id":1594,"date":"2015-04-09T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2015-04-09T10:39:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:39:01","slug":"lgbt-discrimination-based-on-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"LGBT* Discrimination based on religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there have been many news stories highlighting a trend in state legislatures trying to discriminate against a certain group of people based on religious objections. Tennessee is currently considering a bill that would allow counseling and social work students at a university protection if they discriminate against another student who is of the LGBT* community because it is against their religious beliefs. The head of the university&#8217;s counseling program has objected to this bill because &#8220;student counselors needed to be available to treat all clients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/03\/tennessee-bill-allows-christian-counselors-to-reject-suicidal-lgbt-students\/\" title=\"Discrimination based on religion\" target=\"_blank\">Discrimination based on religion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the recent outrage and protests over other discrimination bills, do you think this will bill will get passed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there have been many news stories highlighting a trend in state legislatures trying to discriminate against a certain group of people based on religious objections. Tennessee is currently considering a bill that would allow counseling and social work students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=1594\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1836,199],"tags":[13031,80361,3019,534,42659,1121,75529],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-around-the-world","category-lgbt-issues","tag-counseling","tag-discrimination","tag-lgbt","tag-religion","tag-social-work","tag-suicide","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}