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
Reading your post while enjoying my morning coffee.. Ha
Let’s not forget the left’s holy disease of AIDS is predominatly found in practitioners of the gay lifestyle and also from druggies sharing dirty used syringes. So the medical leftists surely would not protect and wink at the use of dirty syringes but are willing to do so for gay sexual practices.
Hypocrites and blinded fools.
Know doctors who’ve treated gays and the things they do to their body is perverse.
Yup, boot his a&&, we can’t have intelligent people spewing the truth!
The a*s is an exit, not an entry.
The alphabet people are trying to get them re-classified from ‘high risk’ sexual activities because they say they are discriminated against when it comes to donating blood and organs.
bump
My FRiend, we have gone way past the time of "well grounded warnings" having any impact.
This "cultural phenomenon" has been going on since the beginning of people on the earth. Your "plain old evolution" has not put a dent in it yet, nor will it ever. Even God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (ultimate warning) was not heard.
As people turn away from God's offer of Grace and give their lives instead to sin, there will be ugly consequences. THIS is the problem. And this is the cause of America's (and the world's) demise. May God have mercy on us!
It has nerves that are designed only to, in its final stage, expel poop as it moves along the alimentary canal. It hosts a deadly cocktail of e coli and other life threatening viruses in it's natural state, a reason that basic hygiene stresses properly wiping your bum and carefully cleansing it when showering or bathing. It is the reason that nursing homes and other places which care for elderly patients stock wipes medicated with alcohol, peroxides and other antiseptic properties for people who may no longer be capable of this basic hygiene.
And that is just the natural state of this organ! Use it for undesigned purposes like sex, and the risks of HIV/AIDS, STD’s, hepatitis, parasitic infections, anal cancers, and psychiatric disorders and the risks multiply exponentially.
That is not a medical opinion, that is established fact. It is NOT normal and it is NOT just another lifestyle anymore than shooting heroin into your veins is normal and just another lifestyle.
I have long been saying that the only way to fight the homosexual agenda is on the health front. Parents of children should also fight the school promotion agenda by bringing up their objection to promoting unhealthy lifestyle. The medical health facts should always be at the forefront of our push back. They are not refutable. If kids cannot have unhealthy food, are taught smoking is bad. Why are they taught gay sex is OK?
He can sue the hospital for religious discrimination.
Is he religious? I didn’t see that mentioned.
He should sue them for scientific discrimination. This hospital - and likely countless others - aren’t willing to deal honestly, with the facts.
Doctor: Now Billy, getting poop in your mouth is bad for you.
Hospital Administrator: I head that, HOMOPHOBE! You're fired!
Doctor: So eating poop is good for you?
Hospital Administrator: Um.....Security!
You know this is a mean thing to say but it's almost too bad that modern AIDS treatment is so effective, if gays in the west were still dropping like they were in the 80's, attitudes would be different.
No doubt that AIDS united the rump rangers. I sat thru that propaganda “And The Band Played On” crapfest and it was clearly laid out.
Now you can watch “Drugs, Inc.” on NatGeo and see fags willingly contract and celebrate AIDS. Check out the meth in SF episode, you’ll want to shoot your TV a la Elvis.
I’ll say it again, I remember when it came out and it was referred to by its proper name: “Gay Related Immuno Defiency” - GRID.
Some of you other old timers, do you remember just when the fag plague came out they had that diet pill called “AYDS”? Talk about bad, bad timing.
If GRID stayed in the fag/junkie population, no one would care. But the crossover into the mainstream is what shined the light on it. I’ve always had the belief that HIV+/AIDS murderers knowingly donated blood to infect normal people to get “their message” out.
#itsrealnameisGRIDnotAIDS
” -—————donated blood to infect normal people to get “their message” out.’
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My Godson die of AIDS in 1984 after a transfusion needed because of an automobile accident. He was 21.
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Wonder what the hospital thinks about SMOKING? Do they ban it? Do they have “cessation programs?” Do they compare life expectancy of smokers vs. Homosexuals?
My condolences to you and your family.
He was a victim of both a car accident and “them”.
Doctors get threatened, censored and harassed for doing their jobs.
Thing is, he actually is an expert in his field and his opinions are based on medical fact and his own experience. He actually knows what he's talking about.
This new enlightenment, that is trying to reprogram or silence him, has been made possible by the dedicated efforts and science of him and others like him they are now telling to STFU and go away.
Unfortunately, HIV/AIDS and a host of other STDs haven't gone away.
They've continued to evolve and to adapt to the weapons being used against them, just as these health care professionals have claimed victory and are letting their freak flags fly.
Seems like every disaster movie I've ever seen starts out just like this one is.
Maybe Seneca was right: "Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad."
Every time you see a gay character on TV, they are adorable and smart and nice...always the greatest character on the show. But they never talk about what they do in the bedroom. They do not want us to think about that. I think we need to remind people of it...often.
The good doctor committed a thought crime and dared utter the truth in violation of political correctness.
Gays will try to destroy anyone who goes public with how unhealthy their bedroom hi-jinx are. Aside from being freaky and an abomination///
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