For me, the issue is more along the lines of the quality of care we offer our consumers.

People interview at our agency, and they see that the director is a PhD, and they never go any further than that. In fact, I've HEARD him say, "I hold a PhD from such and such college." He never says *honorary* and he NEVER tells anyone that he only completed his associates degree. Personally, I think this is a type of lying by omission. I rank it right up there with physicians who go to other countries to get their medical degrees, where the standard of care isn't equal to the US. Then they come here, and practice under Dr. So and so, and patients never know that they FLUNKED out of med school and had to go to Guatemala to get a degree.

There are NUMEROUS diploma mills online. I did a google search and found that for about $195 you can purchase your ThD from a variety of "online seminary" schools. For a little more, $495 you can actually buy a Bachelors or Masters degrees from another.

Pardon my vulgarity, but. . .WHAT THE HELL???? Whatever happened to good old fashioned EARNING the respect that comes with education? Where are the scholarly professors encouraging under grads and graduate students who have legitimate degrees to back up what they are selling?

I'm just appalled. Utterly and completely appalled.