The left has been warring against the First Amendment for some time now.
Posted on 06/21/2015 9:52:44 PM PDT by massmike
On March 30, a major Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), expelled a well-respected urologist from its medical staff because he voiced concerns about the unhealthy nature of homosexual behavior and objected to the hospital’s aggressive promotion of “gay pride” activities.
Dr. Paul Church has been a urologist on the BIDMC staff in Boston for nearly 30 years. He is a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. He has done research on diagnosing prostate and bladder cancer, and has been a frequent volunteer for medical mission projects in Mexico and Africa. He has also spoken before educational and civic groups on the subject of high-risk sexual behaviors.
Over a decade ago, Dr. Church became concerned about the hospital’s aggressive promotion of and involvement in LGBT activities -- including Boston’s annual “Gay Pride Week” – and its emphatic push for staff participation in them. He felt compelled to speak out.
Through emails to hospital officials and later posting on the hospital’s Intranet system, Dr. Church cited irrefutable medical evidence that high-risk sexual practices common to the LGBT community lead to (among other things) a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS, STD's, hepatitis, parasitic infections, anal cancers, and psychiatric disorders.
Promoting such behavior, he said, is contrary to the higher mission of the healthcare facility to protect the public welfare and encourage healthy lifestyles. Dr. Church also reminded the administration that its staff and employees represent a diversity of moral and religious views, and many believe that homosexuality is unnatural and immoral.
The hospital did not at any time dispute the truth of his medical statements, nor did they address his other concerns.
They did not claim that Dr. Church ever discussed this with patients, or treated patients any differently if they were involved with these behaviors.
Instead Dr. Church was met with increasingly harsh efforts by the hospital administration to silence and censor him. They told him that his admonitions about homosexual behavior constituted “discrimination and harassment,” were “offensive to BIDMC staff,” and could not be tolerated.
In July 2011, he was called into the Chief of Surgery’s office and told he should consider resigning or else he would face an investigation. He refused to resign. So a few months later a formal “Peer Review Committee” of BIDMC staff physicians was called together to “assess” his “conduct.” He again presented them with the medical facts, which they did not dispute, but ignored. The committee instead sent him a “letter of reprimand” ordering, “You shall have no communications [in any manner, to anyone in the hospital] concerning your opinion about sexual orientation, homosexuality, or other protected status.”
It was an unusual order – that a physician be banned from discussing critical medical facts relating to his expertise, that could affect the health of people the hospital serves.
Dr. Church subsequently requested that the hospital not send any more promotions about LGBT activities to his email or hospital web connection. The hospital refused that request and continued sending them to him. (They rejected the idea that these communications constituted a religious-based harassment of Dr. Church, or the possibility that such a “gag order” was illegal.)
As the emails and postings sent to Dr. Church by the hospital grew more frequent — as BIDMC’s LGBT activities expanded — he again voiced his concerns via a brief posted comment on one occasion in 2013 and twice in 2014.
The hospital reacted with vehemence. In September 2014 a special “Investigating Committee” was assembled to investigate him. “Charges” were brought against him.
But also, over the next few months the Investigating Committee and BIDMC’s president received an outpouring of letters from colleagues, ethicists, public health experts, and others supporting Dr. Church and his advocacy for healthy behaviors. But the committee was not moved by the concerns of Dr. Church or those who wrote letters on his behalf.
In January 2015 the Investigating Committee submitted its findings to the hospital’s highest body and most prominent group, the 25-member Medical Executive Committee, which then met in February to decide on Dr. Church's fate. At the meeting they allowed Dr. Church to read a statement defending himself.
On March 30, 2015, the Medical Executive Committee announced its decision. Dr. Church was informed that because of his “unsolicited views about homosexuality that were offensive to BIDMC Staff,” he was being terminated from the hospital staff. Further, he was told that that his statements on the subject of homosexuality were “inconsistent with the established standards of professional conduct” and constituted a violation of the hospital’s “Discrimination and Harassment Policy.” It was beyond belief.
According to the hospital’s bylaws, Dr. Church can ask for an appeal hearing, which he has done. It has been scheduled for the end of July. However, it is not a “legal” process per se, but completely run by hospital rules. Dr. Church can at least be accompanied by an attorney, which was not allowed in any of the previous hearings.
Given the way the hospital has handled this so far, the odds of a successful appeal are not good.
Dr. Church has essentially done what virtually no one in the pro-family establishment has been willing to do for at least a decade: unflinchingly tell the medical and moral truth about homosexual behavior. In our opinion, that failure is the main reason why we have lost so much ground in the courts, the public forum, and just about everywhere else.
And this is what it’s come to. The insanity of this decision by a major hospital against a respected physician is staggering. It is one thing for the education system, big business, or even government to succumb to the lunacy of “political correctness.” But when the medical profession do so – especially such an irrational and oppressive manner – it is time for all of us to be fearful. Is this the future?
If you do nothing else, make sure that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center hears from you – and as many others as you can get -- on this. Dr. Church has put his career on the line for all of us. It’s time for us to step up for him.
Contact the president of BIDMC right now. Tell him this is an unacceptable way for a hospital to act. Dr. Church must be reinstated to his position immediately!
Kevin Tabb, MD President and CEO, BIDMC Feldberg 230 Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617-667-4607 Fax: 617-667-3626 ktabb@bidmc.harvard.edu
Expelled for opposing a lifestyle that creates new patients for the doctors to get paid trying to cure.
Like others who encourage free sex to keep the abortion mills running.
Next time the Doctor Chastises anyone for begin fat they should say that if they were gay even though it would be health risks that they could scorn the doctor back for criticizing the lifestyle, so why not give obesity a pass????
The truth? The truth? You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. John 8:32. Now everyone knows the truth, everyone except those who will not open their eyes—all of us.
We all need to wake up to the fact the war is going hot.
I am
A. A male
B. A happily married man
C. Completely repulsed by the thought of male on male sex
Just for fun when I am around any straight man that advocates that sodomites should just be accepted I talk about the physical act of male on male sex and the “rip and tear” nature of it. Most are completely grossed out and then I ask if they would feel comfortable with their children around these types or eating food prepared by their hands. I ask how they feel about having to pay the homos medical bills when in Insurance plans that have to cater to such people.
Dr. Church is telling the truth. The other people are simply lying and committing medical malpractice. This is not about a lifestyle choice. It’s about simply misrepresenting medical facts to promote an unhealthy agenda. Sooner or later, these facts will become more widely know, and the whole mess will explode in the gay movement’s face.
The left does not tolerate any thought by what they approve of. They are the children of their father of lies.
Logic. it confuses liberals.
Male on Male anal sex is really an act of violence because of the violence needed to be done on the body in order to get the “desired sexual result”...
The left has been warring against the First Amendment for some time now.
It’s all about silencing ANY ONE who tells the TRUTH.
Not possible!
The MSM insists they are as normal as your next door neighbor (unless you live in San Fagsicko) and what they do to each other is just another healthy form of sexual affection.............
Ignore just how it is they contract hepatitis far more than normal people, there must be a perfectly logical reason not connected to their "normal" activities............
Get a lawyer!
They don’t celebrate Smokers Pride Day. They celebrate something even less healthy and if you say it’s unhealthy, then you’re some kind of racist Nazi gramophone (or some such thing). Things are pretty upside-down now. If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be funny... then again, it is a little funny.
Spent a bit of time working with Dignity helping terminal AIDS patients.
Watched a lot of men degenerate from buff body builders to pain wracked, dementia afflicted skeletons.
Anyone who says Homosexual behavior is not high risk is lying and just plain evil.
Most likely, they are trying to recruit fresh young people into the homo sub culture while misleading them of the consequences.
those in power in Beth Israel are pro homo. nothing they decide will be unbiased or based on medical evidence.
take your family there at your own risk.
for everyone else, this is the theme throughout the US. homos get control and start worming their way up. once they seize control of the organization, they start pushing their agenda.
fire them or sabotage them whenever and where ever you can.
Five years from now, it might be grounds for execution.
I consider it a ‘preference’ just like pedophiles ‘prefer’ children. The only difference is, generally, homosexual behavior is between two consenting adults.
When things become as in the days of Noah and Lot = End Times
It is going to become very difficult for the truly moral people to prosper in this hedonist civilization. Eventually, it will become very difficult to survive at all. God for this moral real man. God bless him, Amen.
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