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Wednesday, February 2, 1994 BREAKPOINT with Chuck Colson Steve Buckley is one dangerous guy. The 6 foot 2 inch, 240 pound Buckley used to work on the psychiatric ward at a medical center in Oregon. I say used to because Buckley was recently disciplined and transferred to another floor so that he would no longer be a threat to mentally ill patients. What did Steve Buckley do that alarmed his superiors enough that they yanked him off the psychiatric ward? Did he abuse patients? Was he incompetent? No. Worse than that, Steve Buckley is a conservative Christian. One night at the Roseburg Veteran's Administration Medical Center, a patient asked Buckley to sing Amazing Grace with his guitar, and he actually did it. Even worse, when patients asked Buckley how he dealt with depression and fear he would tell them the truth. He said he prays and reads his Bible. For this monstrous offense Buckley was hauled before the medical center's ethics board, and informed that his activities constituted "a danger to the atmosphere of the unit." A disciplinary letter was placed in his permanent file, and he was transferred to the geriatric ward where is expertise inpsychiatric nursing is going to waste. When Buckley asked his superiors what they expected him to do when patients asked direct questions about his faith, he was told to deflect the question and answer evasively. It's not as though Buckley was forcing his religion down his patient's throat along with psychotropic medication. Buckley told BreakPoint that he never brought up his beliefs unless a patient asked him a direct question. "The other staff people talked to patients about their divorces, or even about the last man they slept with," Buckley said, "but I can't talk about God, not even to answer a question." Ironically, the patients themselves never complained about Buckley. In fact, they told the hospital's patient advocate they want him back. So whose rights does the hospital think it's protecting. In the process of protecting the patients' theoretical rights, the staff is trampling all over Buckley's real constitutional rights. In a similar case, Roman vs Appleby, the court ruled that a public school guidance counselor has a First Amendment right to discuss religion with a student so long as the student initiated the topic and was not compelled to accept the counselor's views. So the legal facts here are absolutely clear and in Buckley's favor. The dirty little secret is that the hospital is not really all that concerned about the patients' religious rights. The staff is perfectly happy to impose religion as long as it's not Christianity. Buckley says he and other technicians were required to lead patients in transcendental meditation-style relaxation sessions as part of their therapy. This, despite the fact that a federal court has ruled TM to be a religion, and banned it from public schools. And may I remind you, this is all taking place in a veteran's hospital paid for by our tax funds. We often hear it said that America has become a secular culture, but the truth is that religion is perfectly welcome. It is Christianity that is treated as the enemy.