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
“unsolicited views about homosexuality that were offensive to BIDMC Staff,”
What about the unsolicited emails about LGBTWhatever events? What if people were offended by them? Would they stop?
Homosexual behavior is not “natural”. it goes against the persons biology engaging in it.
My wife’s uncle was a sodomite. He died a horrible death from HIV twenty years after contracting it. I went to his room while his dead body still laid in the bed. He looked like something out of a horror movie. That is the picture in my minds eye of sodomy.
We are living in strange times. People with mental disease are celebrated and exalted to their own destruction and those of us who sound the alarm are vilified.
If homosexuality is an inherited trait, then it will continue to be expressed in human populations. There’s nothing that would stop it.
Heh. I'm going to try to sit thru "Boys Don't Cry" with Hilary Swank this week. Apparently Hollywood changed quite a few facts in their "based on a true story" adaptation though, starting with the fact that the straight girlfriend immediately terminated the relationship when she discovered her "boyfriend" was actually a female. One of the lesbian friends says the "transgendered" chick in the movie was actually a lesbian and just assumed a male identity because that made it easier for her to pick up girls.
I’d expect there will be an eb and flow whether it’s inherited or learned. The population in general is extremely large and reproductive rates are generally going down. Thus more LGBT. When reproduction is more needed for species survival, less LGBT.
Have some Leo Sayer music playing in the background.
AYDS diet pill, yes I remember those commercials from daytime tv ads in the early ‘80s. I was shocked to see Bernie Barrow playing a fake doctor in this commercial at :15, as I remember him from “Ryan’s Hope” (my favorite soap) playing a passionate Irish-American bar owner Johnny Ryan at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjmxmHpBj4E
Don’t forget that farce out in Wyoming which turned out to be a drug deal gone bad. The Gaystapo is still trying to milk it despite it being a huge lie.
Hilary Swank has ONE HELL of a body - she’s holding up really well!
WB with pleasure.
Yep. Can you imagine being the company that puts out a weight loss drug with the same name as the gay plague?
Definitely. I'm worried that seeing a film where she disguises herself as a guy will ruin it for me. :-(
IIRC, she goes full frontal...she can pretend to be a boy, but she ain’t one.
Chloe Sevigny: Did you ever see “The Brown Bunny”? It’s an “art film”.
Okay, finished the film. Its very manipulative like a Michael Moore movie.
It reminds me of when I watched “Alleged” last year. For years, their were cartoonish depictions of what happened at the Scopes Monkey Trial. Alleged came out in 2010 and promised to show a more “accurate version”of what happened. They certainly did, but the director and writer are creationists with an axe to grind, so they write all the evolutionists in the movie as pure evil and ascribe evil motives to them. They basically add a a bunch of made-up dialogue and a fictional subplot about eugenics to convince the audience “the theory of evolution is eeeeeeeeevil”. Aside from that, the movie is good and Colm Meaney does a great job as H. L. Mencken
Boys Dont Cry tells a pretty compelling narrative of a real life incident, but the filmmakers basically depict anyone who doesn’t accept the transgendered chick’s gender identity to be hateful, vicious people. Pretty much any character who doesn’t accept “Brandon” as male once they learn she’s really a girl is extremely nasty and verbally assaults and abuses the main character. Of course she was raped and killed in real life, but its a bit like Harry Potter where you have to accept that everyone at Hogwart’s who joins Slytherin is AUTOMATICALLY evil.
The movie was actually pretty boring and depressing, in spite of the fact we get to see Hilary Swank’s butt. I give it two of our four stars. At least its better than the “true story” Patch Adams. I avoided that movie for years because I thought it would be lame, watched it after Robin Williams died, and it IS lame. The real life Patch Adams is nothing like the movie version. I’d say about 80% of THAT film is fictional, whereas Boys Don’t Cry is about 70% accurate about what happened, and its main flaw is all the characters are written a certain way so they conform with the filmmakers agenda.
Another vastly overrated “LGBT” agenda film: Philadelphia. Whoever gave Tom Hanks the Oscar for that movie was smoking some good stuff. His performance sucked. At least the music was good.
Two GOOD movies about a lesbian relationship that ends tragically: 1) Monster, and 2) Heavenly Creatures.
And I still refuse to watch Brokeback Mountain.
Boobies.
I've seen it. It was boring, ponderous. It had no real plot. Only good scene, Anne Hathaway shows her boobies. The faggotry literally comes out of nowhere, Jake Gly just starts rubbing up against Heath Ledger, Heath is grossed out but then decides to go with it, a real WTF. Jake is a queer but still initiates a relationship with Anne Hathaway for some reason. Heath shows no other interest in men whatsoever, only women, it's just bizarre. The story was written by some woman, I guess it's just her stupid fantasy ala "50 Shades of Gray". Garbage. I don't even see why gays would like it.
I remember this trailer for it, it had lots of 4th of July fireworks and showed the male characters with their wives. LOL, advertising.
If the central element was anything besides faggotry (say they had sex with sheep instead of each other) it would have been panned.
Dick Van Patten, dead at 86. RIP.
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dick-van-patten-dead-86/story?id=31967059
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-George Orwell
Doesn’t Dr. Church know that “the science is settled”?
Yes.
But even if we lose, the Muzzies will sort it for the homos. :)
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