ASHA's Gay Rulers Deciding What Your Personal Beliefs Should Be

Dear ASHA: go to hell

ASHA doesn't care what your personal morals or beliefs are. ASHA wants you to abandon them and get in line with what ASHA (now heavily influenced/driven by a cabal of gay activists) thinks. Despite the fact that "many" members (see quote below) object to ASHA's gay agenda (private emails and messages indicate a large backlash over this issue that ASHA has chosen to dismiss (ASHA only uses The ASHA Leader to publicize membership poll results that agree with its leadership's liberal progressive political agenda and greed. All other data gets buried.)). In its usual "let's ride over the will of the members" fashion, ASHA is demanding that members support issues they don't agree with (and that ASHA even admits knowing they don't agree with). Take a look:

While many member comments reflected an ideal but not the reality, it is important for ASHA, and its members, to maintain support of often uncomfortable issues, such as non-discrimination legislation. ASHA Statement (see footnote 19)

Translation:
1) ASHA wants you to throw your personal religious beliefs and morals on the trash heap if they don't have the approval of ASHA's radical gay activist rulers and overlords.
2) ASHA believes that your personal morals and religious beliefs are nothing but an anxiety problem that you need to get over. According to ASHA, it's not homosexuality that is a disorder and the disease-ridden gay lifestyle that is unhealthy - it's your disapproval that needs treatment. ASHA is now diagnosing its members' mental status. Up next: ASHA will be scheduling mandatory mammograms and colonoscopies for all its members. Your appointment will be arriving in the mail any day now - along with your dues renewal notice demanding $225 to support the lifestyles of ASHA's millionaire bosses.
3) ASHA can't allow any of it's gay rulers to feel uncomfortable at any time and for any reason, so ASHA will make its non-gay members feel uncomfortable - all the time and for any reason ASHA deems acceptable.

Dear ASHA: you can go to hell.
We are not giving up our personal beliefs for you or anyone else. Nor are we ever going to "maintain support" of "uncomfortable issues" just because a cabal of gay activists is in control of ASHA. I hereby refuse to comply with your policy agenda. If you want to file an ethical violation complaint against me, go ahead. Come and get me. Try it. I'll return the favor with a class-action religious discrimination lawsuit against ASHA on behalf of the "many" members who disagree with ASHA. I look forward to you financing my retirement in Costa Rica.

ASHA members will soon be required to attend "reeducation" workshops
to deal with beliefs and thoughts that ASHA deems unacceptable

ASHA Leaks #1: Email SLPs Never Meant To See

Has ASHA Been Lying To Its Members?
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ASHA Watch has obtained emails and messages that were never meant to be seen by the general membership. We'll be posting them now and then.

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 (Note: ENDA is the gay rights bill that ASHA has made part of its policy agenda.)


April  19, 2007

Hi XXXX,

(hidden)

This is Stefanie Reeves from ASHA's DC office. I provided the ENDA

update ...in March. I got word

yesterday afternoon that Rep. Barney Frank is slated to introduce

ENDA legislation in the House on this Tuesday April 24. I'm working

on materials ahead of the introduction including a letter of support

from ASHA and a listserv message.

We know that ENDA makes good business sense and that sexual

orientation should not be a cause for discrimination in the

workplace. However, are there additional reasons why ASHA is

supportive of ENDA? I want to include that information in my

materials. Please feel free to send this to colleagues who may have

feedback as well. Given the timing of the introduction, anything you

can get to me no later than Friday morning would be helpful. Thanks

in advance for your help with this.

Stefanie

Stefanie Reeves

Director of Political Advocacy 

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Capitol Hill Office

444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 715

Washington, DC 20001
(Italics added)

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Below is an ASHA statement claiming that ASHA's sole involvement with ENDA is simple monitoring:

ASHA has an obligation to update its members about the status of laws that will affect them, including the proposed Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).  ASHA’s simple monitoring of the legislative status of ENDA thus is fully consistent with its organizational purpose.  (bold and italics added)

- Arlene Pietranton, executive director of ASHA since January 2004

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Congressman and male prostitute customer
Barney Frank: you've got a friend at ASHA

Okay, Arlene, so which is it? Simple monitoring or active involvement in helping Barney Frank introduce the gay rights bill, with a letter of support from ASHA included? What ASHA's office was engaged in was definitely not "simple monitoring" but blatant advocacy on the bill's behalf and a violation of the federal tax laws. 
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I've been told that ASHA is terrified of this blog. Really? BOO! Hey, ASHA, I would retire in a moment if you would stop all your crap. How about quitting the liberal progressive BS, stopping the financial exploitation of members, respecting your conservative and Christian members as much as you do your gay members, and getting back to your mission of serving the professional interests of SLPs? If you think that's too much to ask, then you all need to lose your jobs and the Rockland, Maryland ASHA swamp office needs to be cleaned out and disinfected.

Outrage: ASHA Article Suggests Creating Database of Clinicians Who Are "Safe" For LGBT Clients

Add this item to the "political correctness running amok in ASHA" file.
The latest issue of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology has an article that recommends that ASHA create:

...a database of communication disorders practitioners who are "welcoming" or "safe" to clients who are LGBT. Link

I guess it's only called segregation and blacklisting when conservatives do it. When liberals do it, it's called "being culturally sensitive."
So, what's the problem that LGBT people think that they need to have a database of practitioners who are "safe" (as opposed to what? Homicidally dangerous practitioners?) ?
Are LGBT clients being denied services by SLPs because they are LGBT?
No.
This has NEVER happened.
According to the article, it seems that - I hope you're sitting down because this is going to shock you and make you want to run out in the street to offer hugs of consolation to every LGBT person you can find - LGBT clients are sometimes an itty-bitty embarrassed to admit to clinicians that they have a partner.

The LGBT community: shy and easily embarrassed

Embarrassed.
These are the same people who don't have a problem parading down main street on Gay Pride day wearing nothing but body paint and a harness.
Guess what? Heterosexual clients are just as likely to be embarrassed with gay clinicians as vice-versa. It's difficult not to be embarrassed by a man who waxes his eyebrows, puts cinnamon highlights in his hair, and thinks Lady Gaga is a good singer. Whaddya mean it's not just their eyebrows they wax? Yikes! Sounds painful.
Maybe greedy ASHA can develop another certificate: "certified clinically competent to serve the LGBT community" (aka the ccc-lgbt?). (Cue up the cash register sound effect: Ka- CHING!)

Okay. You can have your database of "safe" clinicans. 
Go and run with this article's suggestion, ASHA.
In return:
I want ASHA to create a database of SLPs who are not gay or liberal and who are not hostile toward Christian, conservative Jewish, Mormon, or Republican views and beliefs. I want a database of clinicians who don't define marriage as a "meaningful" relationship between any three people who meet up on Craigslist. This database will blacklist liberal progressive clinicians (and ASHA bosses and board members) who roll their eyes when you mention Fox News, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, or Jesus. It will blacklist clinicians and ASHA bosses who think it is a sin not to recycle a plastic shopping bag but perfectly okay to abort a human fetus; who think that a woman should have the right to choose to have an abortion but no right to choose what kind of light bulbs she uses in her home. And I want all gay and lesbian clinicians to be forced by ASHA (if they refuse, revoke their cccs!) to attend diversity workshops so they will develop greater appreciation for and sensitivity to the history, culture, and ethical/moral standards of the heterosexual and Christian community.

The "safe" database suggested by the ASHA journal article would let everyone know which clinicians are "friendly" and "safe"  for LGBT clients (translation: which clinicians are LGBT). But it'll also be a great way for clients (and other clinicians and colleagues) to avoid patronizing and associating with those who have contempt for don't share their religious, moral, political, and social/family values.
If LGBT people can get away with this, why shouldn't other groups be allowed to do the same? Let's have databases for every multicultural group: Jewish clinicians for Jews, African-American clinicians for African-Americans, gun-owning clinicians for NRA members, etc. Let's segregate clinicians according to race, religion, gender, sexual habits, politics, gun ownership, age, marital status, socio-economic status, and what kind of music they listen to.
Gays don't want to go to straight clinicians? Fine. Don't. Develop your database.
Now give traditional values clients the same opportunity: provide an informative database so they can avoid going to liberal progressive/LGBT clinicians. Or even working with them! Maybe ASHA can even set up separate areas at the annual convention for them! As a public safety precaution, I suggest that ASHA put these areas no more than twenty paces from an open bar so that there won't be any acute cases of alcohol and club music withdrawal.
Personally, I would happily go so far as to pay a monthly fee (sort of like a Netflix subscription) to avoid having to ever again associate with liberals, Democrats, Obama and big government lovers, and anyone who listens to NPR. I believe in being compassionate toward the mentally ill, but think that these people are best handled by trained professionals.
Throw in a guarantee that all my future colleagues, co-workers, and neighbors will be Republicans and NRA members and I'm ready to empty out my entire bank account right now!

Go ahead with your database but remember:
what goes around comes around -

- and ends up biting you in the ass.