Columnist George Will points out the liberal groupthink that is required in accredited social work programs across the nation.

In 2005, Emily Brooker, a social-work student at Missouri State University, was enrolled in a class taught by a professor who advertised himself as a liberal and insisted that social work is a liberal profession. At first, a mandatory assignment for his class was to advocate homosexual foster homes and adoption, with all students required to sign an advocacy letter, on university stationery, to the state legislature.

When Brooker objected on religious grounds, the project was made optional. But shortly before the final exam she was charged with a "Level 3," the most serious, violation of professional standards. In a 2 1/2 -hour hearing -- which she was forbidden to record and which her parents were barred from attending -- the primary subject was her refusal to sign the letter. She was ordered to write a paper ("Written Response about My Awareness") explaining how she could "lessen the gap" between her ethics and those of the social-work profession. When she sued the university, it dropped the charges and made financial and other restitution.

The NAS study says that at Rhode Island College's School of Social Work, a conservative student, William Felkner, received a failing grade in a course requiring students to lobby the state legislature for a cause mandated by the department. The NAS study also reports that Sandra Fuiten abandoned her pursuit of a social-work degree at the University of Illinois at Springfield after the professor, in a course that required students to lobby the legislature on behalf of positions prescribed by the professor, told her that it is impossible to be both a social worker and an opponent of abortion.

I've seen some of this second hand. A good friend in a Bible study I hosted several years ago was attending San Diego State University to get her Master's Degree in Social Work. She'd done her undergraduate work at a small Christian College in the Upper Midwest and she would almost weekly share some of the indoctrination that she was required to suffer through. One week she had an assignment where she was directed to write a paper defending leaving children with a drug-addicted parent. She thought this was irresponsible, but was having trouble coming up with just the right way to attack this position. Finally her future brother-in-law (he married her younger sister) suggested that she compare the drug-addiction to having a firearm in the home. The liberal social work types wouldn't support someone exercising their Second Amendment rights, but drugs were OK.

She eventually left the Master's program and sought a Master's in Christian Counseling at Bethel Seminary.