by Ryan Foley, Christian Post
The Kentucky Board of Social Work has determined that a Christian counselor did not violate the professional standards of his practice by speaking out against the embrace of LGBT ideology, as the effort to restore the mental health professional to his former position following his termination continues.
In a statement published Wednesday, the religious liberty law firm Liberty Counsel announced that the board dismissed ethics complaints against an unnamed Christian counselor who was fired for expressing traditional religious beliefs on gender and sexuality in a Facebook post.
The Kentucky Board of Social Work informed the counselor in a letter on Tuesday that it “concluded that the facts alleged in this matter do not constitute any apparent violation of Kentucky law governing the practice of social work.”
“First Amendment speech and religious protections do not disappear when someone becomes a licensed counselor,” Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said in response to the dismissal of the complaints. “These frivolous complaints are a clear attempt to unconstitutionally silence and censor opposing views. There was no jurisdiction or cause here to regulate the counselor’s speech or discipline him based on private expressions of religious and political beliefs.”