That may have been what this article said but I read the court opinion which said exactly the opposite.
The court opinion stated that Keeton’s views were not under attack and that they were in no way incompatible with being a successful counselor. The opinion further stated that several other graduates of the program held identical views with Keeton’s and those had been no impediment to their training, graduation, certification & later practice. Keeton’s personal views were in fact not germaine.
Keeton’s problem was that she was not willing to respect that her clients might not share her views. The training is supposed to allow the counselor to work efficiently with diverse populations treating all religions, races, ethnic groups and sexual identities with respect even when they do not share your beliefs. IRL Keeton could have referred LGBT clients to another therapist in her group or another group nearby that was comfortable with LGBT clients.
Keeton was given a choice of a broad range of ways she could be exposed to the ideas of a population she was unable to relate to in a therapeutic fashion so that by understanding them better she could perform her duties.
My read on the situation is that she was taking a stand, sueing for a fight to spread her viewpoint. If you are a counselor you help the person with the problem they present you with. While you may personally abhor their lifestyle they may be happy with it.
A mental health professional needs to respect people’s right to choose their path. The rule is meant to protect all people so Muslim counselors respect Christian clients, Black, White visa versa and so on. Keeton was very aggressive in telling clients and even classmates or staff that they needed to go for conversion therapy as unsolicited advise.
I do not see how the school could have graduated her without some understanding on her part of professional ethics. There was a very real possibility she could have caused harm to clients with fragile self esteem or in crisis and the school would have been partially negligent.
As a Chaplain counselor in a program at a major university, we had to deal with the same issue. At that university, the staff chose to acknowledge that in our counseling we bring a Christian worldview and that our position makes it impossible for us not to recommend historic Christian truth.
They graduated us anyway...with highest honors, it turned out.