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UK Doctor Sacked For Blasphemy
The American Conservative ^ | 8 Jul 2018 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 07/08/2018 7:38:57 AM PDT by oblomov

In the UK, the National Health Service has thrown out a doctor:

A doctor has been “sacked” as a medical assessor for a government department after refusing to renounce his Christian belief that gender is determined at birth, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

Dr David Mackereth has worked for 26 years as an NHS doctor but was told he could not be employed as a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability assessor if he refused to identify patients as being of a sex that they did not see themselves as.

The 55-year-old father of four believes sex is genetic and biological, so established at birth.

Wait a minute. Holding the view that people are born male or female is now a theological belief? Do you see how radical this is? Here’s the theology angle: this doctor was fired because he blasphemed against the militant new religion.

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To: BenLurkin

“How is that a “Christian belief”?”

Interesting observation. I am guessing it is a thought evolving from the Left’s viewpoint that everything they believe is bad is attributable to Christianity. They can’t, for example, say that his view is unscientific or runs counter to the prevailing culture. The Left has demonized Christianity as anti-progressive...or, possible cisnormal or some such garbage words. It used to be normal in the South that people offered public prayers. Now, I am actually startled and look around to see who will protest or throw a fit.


21 posted on 07/08/2018 8:12:24 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: oblomov

Ha ha! Good one! Satire, I love it it. Wait... what? This actually happened? Jesus, please come back soon! Things are really getting out of hand down here and the world could use a tune up. Amen...


22 posted on 07/08/2018 8:15:37 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: oblomov

He’s a science “Denier”. No wait a minute. Gender can be determined scientifically, if there’s a “Y” chromosome present it’s a male, no “Y” it’s a female. He’s a science “originalist”, he’s denying science is “fluid’. Welcome to the asylum folks.


23 posted on 07/08/2018 8:15:41 AM PDT by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: oblomov

I keep reading that Englands’ NHS is short on qualified doctors, yet they casually discard one, all because of semantics and mandatory lies.

This line of thinking and acting perpetuates itself, like a printing machine nobody knows how to disable.
We are in effect, feeding Malware to our own societies.


24 posted on 07/08/2018 8:17:58 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: oblomov

It’s not a Christian belief!!!!!
It’s fact!!!!

The f*ckheads condemned Christians for thinking the earth was flat (not a Christian belief) and now they condemn us for stating scientific fact.

But it doesn’t matter. The UK will soon be m*slim and the liberals’ heads will be chopped off.

The UK will go from one kind of fascism to another.


25 posted on 07/08/2018 8:25:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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To: oblomov

Any sane, logical medical practitioner would consider the physical properties of a person when treating physical illness.

You may be crazy, but prostate cancer doesn’t care.


26 posted on 07/08/2018 8:25:49 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: oblomov

I guess the doctor won’t be able to work in the UK any longer. Bring him to America. Seems like the kind of immigrant we would want.


27 posted on 07/08/2018 8:36:31 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not really. “Global warming” is something that has happened: the earth has experienced ice ages which ended - “global warming” precisely - in addition to other widespread but less dramatic climate fluctuations.

Transsexualism, on the other hand, is pure-dee barking mad nonsense which can easily be proved to be totally dead wrong.


28 posted on 07/08/2018 8:38:46 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Tax-chick

I should have said anthropogenic globull warming. My mistake.


29 posted on 07/08/2018 8:42:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: oblomov

U.K. is on the path to suicide. It’s just making an awful big drama show of it.


30 posted on 07/08/2018 8:44:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: oblomov

And it all started with the “false” belief that marriage was between a man and a woman.

Remember the rainbow argument - “What is it to you if two (fill in blank) get married?”

Well, now you know.


31 posted on 07/08/2018 8:48:22 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: A_perfect_lady

“I wonder if Muslim doctors are put to this litmus test”

In Iran, for homosexuals who wish to live, gender reassignment surgery is about their only hope. Otherwise, it’s off the top of the tallest building in town.


32 posted on 07/08/2018 8:52:40 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: oblomov

UK now a totalitarian shithole. Write it off. Its over.


33 posted on 07/08/2018 8:54:27 AM PDT by anton
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To: oblomov

Marxist double speak BS. What fools they’ve become.


34 posted on 07/08/2018 8:55:01 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: oblomov

England is lost.


35 posted on 07/08/2018 8:56:21 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: oblomov

This is EXACTLY what happens when a tyrannical government takes your guns.

You are ordered to proclaim that 1 equals 2.


36 posted on 07/08/2018 8:58:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“Dr David Mackereth has worked for 26 years as an NHS doctor but was told he could not be employed as a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability assessor if he refused to identify patients as being of a sex that they did not see themselves as.”

This looks like an example of the all too common phenomenon of saying or writing the exact opposite of what is meant. I think DID NOT should be left out. Apparently he was refusing to identify patients as being of a sex they DID see themselves as. At least in that sentence the correct term of sex was used rather than the incorrect term of gender. A lot of what I see written now cannot be simply read, it must be INTERPRETED to figure out what the writer was trying to write but in some cases I cannot even be sure the writer knew what he or she was attempting to convey.


37 posted on 07/08/2018 8:59:58 AM PDT by RipSawyer
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To: oblomov

The doctor should have just told them he read it in the koran, that trumps everything PC. And even Mo wasn’t confused about boys and girls. He just made sure he was the top boy and on top of every girl.


38 posted on 07/08/2018 9:04:20 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: oblomov

39 posted on 07/08/2018 9:04:42 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Exactly. And keep in mind that when Orwell wrote "1984," it was explicitly the English bureaucracy he was modeling it on, not necessarily the Nazis or the Commies.

The Anglosphere thinks quite highly of itself, but in so many ways it is a cornucopia of perversity.

40 posted on 07/08/2018 9:06:34 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi)
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