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Article Title:	Court Upholds Christian Counsellor's Claim For Wrongful Dismissal
Author of reported comment:	Catherine
Comment Date:	15:01 on Jan 29 2009
Comment:	As a non-heterosexual Christian who remains celibate, again, I find double-standards amongst Christians who are 'sticking to their religious beliefs'. Mr McFarlane will have worked with opposite-sex (straight) couples who were not married but were having sex, so again, it seems that Christians are picking and choosing when their religious convictions apply and when they don't. If Mr McFarlane wants to work with solely Christian ideals, he should work for a Christian organisation, not an organisation that deals with all sections of society. I am also a partially-trained counsellor and I am a fully trained social care worker. fullest. If my clients meet Jesus, great! Brilliant! And I pray for them all regularly. But I do not go to work to impose my faith on others and expect special treatment because of my faith. Counselling is about seeing the CLIENT's world THROUGH THEIR EYES, not the counsellor's eyes. If my client was vegan and I told them they looked skinny and needed to eat meat, that would be counter-productive because it is against the client's value base. The counsellor needs to be able to work with an individual with the life that that individual has. So, again, Christians should be careful about waving their rights around in court, because they are usually selective rights, and usually selective against dealing equally with gay people as with straight people, which puts gay people off God. If a Christian wants to work with solely Christian ideals, they should work in a Christian environment. Or they should do they job they are paid to do, which they accepted when they signed their employment contract.

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