Big story. Really big story. Even if the name Keeton isn’t ringing a bell, her dilemma almost certainly does. She’s the local college student that made national news after suing Augusta State University, which she claims requires her to change her Christian beliefs in order to graduate with a counseling degree.
Here, we check in with a number of folks to make sense of this case, as well as a number of other recent church/state conflicts.
Augusta State lawsuit, letters on prayers reignite old debate
AUGUSTA, GA. – Church and state clashes are common. Solutions that satisfy are not.
An organization of atheists and agnostics asked the Aiken City Council to end the prayers that traditionally open its meetings. A week later, a letter to Augusta’s government followed.
Last week, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Christian student at Augusta State University who contends she would be required to change her beliefs in order to graduate.
People of faith can find comfort in the fact that “the system is meant to work this way,” said Michael Broyde, a professor of law at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta.
“It’s a tension that comes from two competing values. We have an anti- establishment clause which mandates the federal government never pick one religion over another. We also have another, which says anyone is free to worship as they choose,” he said. “Very few countries have both provisions.”
In the eyes of the church, it’s more than a clash of values. It’s a collision of world views.
The Rev. David McKinley highlighted the ASU conflict from the pulpit of Warren Baptist Church last Sunday. He played a clip of 24-year-old Jennifer Keeton describing her convictions in a video for the Alliance Defense Fund, which filed the suit.
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