2/3/12: Court Rules in Favor of College Student Expelled Over Her Faith

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A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Christian graduate student who was expelled from a university counseling program because of her religious beliefs.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of Julea Ward, a student at Eastern Michigan University. Ward was dismissed from the school’s graduate counseling program because she would not affirm the homosexual lifestyle.

Judge Jeffrey Sutton, writing for the three-judge panel, said that Ward’s free speech claims deserve a trial on the merits in U.S. District Court adding “A reasonable jury could find that the university dismissed Ward from its counseling program because of hostility toward her speech and faith…not because of any legitimate pedagogical objective.”