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When Political Correctness toward Homosexuals Stops Doctors from Doing Their Jobs
The Stream ^ | 11/10/15 | Michael Brown

Posted on 11/10/2015 5:11:45 PM PST by markomalley

Imagine this scene if you will.

A respected doctor and medical professor serving at a large hospital becomes concerned as he documents increasing health risks related to obesity. But as he is compiling data to document this, he is astonished to see that his hospital actively supports fast-food restaurants and even encourages participation in pro-obesity events.

When he protests the hospital’s actions and shares his concerns, he is fired for his lack of sensitivity to fat people. He is even accused of holding to prejudicial views and, to prevent this from happening again in the future, the hospital institutes obesity sensitivity training for all employees, including doctors.

Does this sound completely far-fetched?

On the one hand, it is completely fictional, although there has been a “fat acceptance” movement in America for some years.

On the other hand, with a few minor changes, it is completely true.

The doctor in question is Paul Church, a urologist on the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center staff in Boston for almost 30 years. He is also a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty.

As reported by MassResistance, Dr. Church “has also spoken before educational and civic groups on the subject of high-risk sexual behaviors,” and, “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.”

As a urologist, he began to document the increased health risks relating to homosexual sexual acts. He also took exception to the hospital’s open and even aggressive support of gay pride events, finding this not only morally offensive on a personal level but hypocritical and contradictory on a professional level.

Would the hospital promote “pride” events for cigarette smokers or obese children? Then why would it promote gay pride events if the health risks of homosexual sex were documented and well-known?

Yet for his actions, Dr. Church was fired by the hospital.

How dare he offend people by speaking the truth about their health. How dare he not put gay feelings before gay health.

MassResistance explained that the hospital’s “Medical Executive Board claimed that Dr. Church’s statements to colleagues about the medical dangers of homosexual behavior, and moral issues surrounding it, were ‘offensive’ and constituted ‘discrimination,’ ‘harassment’ and ‘unprofessional conduct.’”

Let those words sink in.

As a highly trained doctor, to warn of health risks associated with certain behaviors and to protest his hospital’s aggressive support of those who engage in those behaviors is to be offensive and to engage in discrimination, harassment and unprofessional conduct.

To date, despite Dr. Church’s appeals, his firing has been upheld.

Moving from Boston to Washington, D.C., it was reported on October 30, “With the number of gay and transgender people on the upswing in the District of Columbia, city council members want to force doctors to take cultural competency classes to better accommodate them.”

In fact, five other states already require this, almost guaranteeing that doctors like Dr. Church would not be able to warn about related health risks in those states.

As explained by Laquandra Nesbitt, director of the D.C. Department of Health, The training “helps you to identify skills that help you to have interactions that are not offensive to people of other cultures.”

So, just as it would presumably be offensive to tell fat people that their obesity was detrimental to their health, it would be just as offensive – if not more so – to tell a gay man that some of his preferred sexual acts were detrimental to his health.

But isn’t that exactly what physicians are supposed to do? To consider the health of the patient to be more important than the feelings of the patient?

That’s obviously not the case when it comes to LGBT patients.

The worst sin is to offend.

Of course, I’m all for doctors being culturally sensitive to the unique challenges faced by particular groups of people, and part of the proposed training would no doubt be aimed at increasing that sensitivity.

But there’s no doubt that it would also create an atmosphere of extreme hostility to anyone who would dare to “offend” gays by warning them that homosexual acts can be detrimental to their health, while the failure of any doctor to celebrate homosexuality would be deemed a breach of professional conduct.

This is when political correctness becomes deadly.

In similar fashion, it was reported on November 9, “The American Psychological Association has taken the extraordinary step of retracting an in-house journal article that asserted the rate of rape and other sexual trauma among military men was as much as 15 times higher than the Pentagon’s own survey” – and this despite the fact that the article was peer-reviewed before being published.

This time, however, quite mysteriously, peer-review was not enough and “outside scholars” who examined the study “determined that the method for randomly selecting and surveying male combat veterans was flawed.”

How convenient!

Perish the thought of revealing that gay male rape is out of control in the Armed Forces. That would destroy the PC myth of “all positives and no negatives” for homosexuals serving openly in the military, and at all costs, the myth must be upheld, regardless of how many servicemen suffer.

The medical world and the psychological world must bow down to the gods of political correctness, and this is when it becomes downright deadly.

But if we love life and care about people, we need to speak the truth, even when it hurts. Sometimes the painful truth is the very thing needed to produce healing.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gays; homofascism; homosexualagenda; tyranny
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1 posted on 11/10/2015 5:11:45 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Homosexualism is abnormal. It obviously goes against the laws of nature and nature’s God. Government trying to force it down our throats is tyranny.


2 posted on 11/10/2015 5:21:08 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: markomalley

Government-certified victim groups can never do wrong. They are protected from responsibility for their actions, even if they hurt them or other people.

This also explains why wrap heads are never made to pay for their crimes.


3 posted on 11/10/2015 5:21:43 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: markomalley

The noose is tightening around political correctness’ neck.


4 posted on 11/10/2015 5:22:29 PM PST by uncitizen (Trump: Saying what we are all thinking)
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To: markomalley
This kind of stuff has been going on for many decades. If you can stomach it, read Randy Shilts' excellent book on the rise of the AIDS epidemic, "And The Band Played On" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_On).

Even as their buddies and lovers were dying of horrible sexually transmitted diseases, the gay community continued with the wildly unsafe sexual practices.

The book was about the period from 1980-1985 (published in 1987). That's 30 years ago.

5 posted on 11/10/2015 5:25:09 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: markomalley

Get a fat doctor, and he won’t complain about your obesity. Get a doctor who smokes, and he will say nothing about tobacco.


6 posted on 11/10/2015 5:26:26 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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7 posted on 11/10/2015 5:28:10 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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8 posted on 11/10/2015 5:28:15 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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9 posted on 11/10/2015 5:28:16 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: markomalley

So you’re telling me this urologist says exposure to doody is not good for your penis? Who would have ever thought?!


10 posted on 11/10/2015 5:35:33 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: markomalley

“...asserted the rate of rape and other sexual trauma among military men was as much as 15 times higher than the Pentagon’s own survey”. And has anyone studied this as a connection to suicides in the military?


11 posted on 11/10/2015 5:38:00 PM PST by Purdue77 ("I would make the perfect benevolent dictator. Vote for me.")
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To: dayglored

That was a very well done movie also.

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12 posted on 11/10/2015 5:38:04 PM PST by Mears
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To: markomalley

The homofascists understand if you can control Words, you can control all perceptions of the ignorant masses.

Truth was banned by 1960-—and literally censored by the SCOTUS (unconstitutional)-—as they use “Just Law” to promote Vice and evil, irrational use of the human body and Marxism (Stalin’s Constitution/theft/welfare).

All behavior is learned and habituated-—as Aristotle knew thousands of years ago. It is essential to groom and corrupt young boys to destroy Virtue formation before their first sexual experience-—to warp their desires and fixate them in puerile, narcissistic ages-—like the muslim harem-boys who learn to hate and mutilate women.

All this promoting of evil, vile, irrational behavior is for the “children”-—to flip 2000 years of Virtue back to the pagan, Ba’al religions.

The Supreme Court has OUTLAWED TRUTH and JUSTICE (virtue) and it is ALL unconstitutional. They need to be put in prison for Treason and throwing our Rule of Law (Higher Law/God’s) for Rule of Man.


13 posted on 11/10/2015 5:39:38 PM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: markomalley
The hospitals in question are actively promoting these unhealthy activities and implicitly suppressing the only 100% safe preventive solution, i.e. Abstinence. A really good lawyer could convince the courts that the hospitals were, in fact, homophobic since they were both passively and actively advancing the spread of potentially fatal diseases to a specific subset of the population that participate in the lifestyle.
14 posted on 11/10/2015 5:52:08 PM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: markomalley

The Kleins said it clearly recently when the satanic homo mob put them out of business, [paraphrase] it isn’t that the government wants to put people out of business, but they want to rehabilitate them such that they can operate within the new laws.


15 posted on 11/10/2015 5:54:17 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: markomalley

“But there’s no doubt that it would also create an atmosphere of extreme hostility to anyone who would dare to “offend” gays by warning them that homosexual acts can be detrimental to their health, while the failure of any doctor to celebrate homosexuality would be deemed a breach of professional conduct.”

Fine, keep them in the dark and save your job. Let nature take its course. I’m tired of this nonsense.


16 posted on 11/10/2015 6:05:50 PM PST by goldi
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To: goldi
When the then mayor of SF, Dianne Feinstein tried to close down the gay bathhouses in the 80s, guess what happened?

All but lynched for her truthful knowledge that they were hotbeds for spreading HIV.

It isn't some kind of ancient Chinese secret that rectal sex is dangerous and spreads disease.

"Gay bowel" is well known, and has been for decades before AIDS ever came along.

Poop is NOT clean.

Why the doctor is crucified for pointing that out is a mystery.

And for the record, anonymous sex with hundreds of partners isn't "safe", either.

No matter which way you swing.

17 posted on 11/10/2015 6:31:47 PM PST by boop (Those aren't...credit cards...)
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To: markomalley

Good luck with this, Doctor.

As Randy Shilts pointed out in “The Band Played On,” it was solely the cause of the militant homosexuals that led to the spread of AIDS. When the CDC suspected the gay bath houses were the spread point of this disease and wanted to shut them down — not permanently, just long enough to investigate them — the militant homonazis protested and raised their loud, collective voices.

When the CDC wanted to separate blood transfusions from homosexual men to be tested, again, the militant homonazis protested and shrieked. Tainted blood made the rounds.

The CDC appeased the homonazis.

The rest, as they say, is history.


18 posted on 11/10/2015 7:54:24 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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To: Jim Robinson
It is not only abnormal, the anus isn't even designed for sexual pleasure, it is designed solely to expel fecal waste.

Very interesting article here on the design of the female sexual organ. I'm not going to quote it, but find it interesting that nature and nature's God designed pleasure into the heterosexual union as explained by the article.

Into deviant sex, not so much.

19 posted on 11/10/2015 8:05:42 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: savagesusie

Truth was banned by 1960-—and literally censored by the SCOTUS (unconstitutional)-—as they use “Just Law” to promote Vice and evil, irrational use of the human body and Marxism (Stalin’s Constitution/theft/welfare).>>>>>
i’m curious. how did that happen?


20 posted on 11/10/2015 8:23:24 PM PST by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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