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Originally Posted by Smittie61984
I'm sure complications in a homosexual relationship is much harder than a heterosexual relationship.
For example, how would you consel a young white male who has a black boyfriend and wants to introduce their relationship to their WASP family?
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How would you counsel the same if it was a white female and black male, or vice versa? How would you counsel a young white woman whose white boyfriend is beating the ever-loving crap out of her everyday, but she "still loves him" and won't just leave him?
I'm betting heterosexual relationship counseling can get just as complicated or moreso than any other type of counseling.
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Originally Posted by Homeslice
Well I wouldn't go to a gay person for advice about my girlfriend. And I doubt they would come to me for advice either.
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You seem to be implying that a counselor is only qualified to counsel people on problems they have experienced or might experience. In which case, no women should ever counsel men, no white people should ever counsel black people, no Jew should ever counsel a Christian, etc. I think you'll run into a shortage of "qualified" counselors pretty quick in that case.
Starting your own practice and refusing to counsel certain individuals is one thing; that is your private business. But if you work for a company or organization that has made their policies clear to you when you start working there, I don't think you should be allowed to play the religion card in order to violate those policies.
I wonder how many of you would feel the same if she was a Muslim and filing the same suit.