Posted on 09/28/2015 11:06:56 AM PDT by xzins
A Harvard-affiliated hospital reportedly expelled a popular doctor after he voiced his religious beliefs about homosexuality.
Dr. Paul Church, who had admitting privileges at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, was told his position on homosexuality constituted as "discrimination," "harassment," and "unprofessional conduct," and that Bible verses regarding homosexuality are similarly "offensive" and discriminatory.
"Dr. Church was censured and subjected to disciplinary action for stating an objection on medical and religious grounds to the promotion of homosexuality," says Richard Mast, a Liberty Counsel attorney representing Church.
Mast confirmed Church received a letter from the hospital, assessed the letter and exercised his rights under the bylaws for admission purposes. Though the hospital had handed down the expulsion in March, Church was denied an appeal in early September.
LifeSiteNews reports the hospital began censuring Church's comments more than a decade ago.
Church's comments were allegedly posted on a BIDMC communication server years ago.
"The evidence is irrefutable that behaviors common within the homosexual community are unhealthy and high risk for a host of serious medical consequences, including STD's, HIV and AIDS, anal cancer, hepatitis, parasitic intestinal infections, and psychiatric disorders," Church reportedly wrote.
"Life expectancy is significantly decreased as a result of HIV/AIDS, complications from the other health problems, and suicide. This alone should make it reprehensible to the medical community, who has an obligation to promote and model healthy behaviors and lifestyles."
For attorney Mast, Church's case represents the fight for religious freedom many Christians face when making their faith public in the private sector.
Just because an act is legal—be it abortion, education standards or gay marriage—doesn't make it moral, Mast says.
"This needs to be a wake-up call for America," Mast says. "What we see being enacted in corporate America is vague terms like labeling something 'offensive' is grounds for being fired. We're seeing deligitimized expressions of religious beliefs. ... Rather than disagreeing with ideas, (corporate America) is characterizing the expression of a Christian worldview as offensive, hateful and hurtful, effectively enacting gag orders across corporate America for religious beliefs."
"The evidence is irrefutable that behaviors common within the homosexual community are unhealthy and high risk for a host of serious medical consequences, including STD's, HIV and AIDS, anal cancer, hepatitis, parasitic intestinal infections, and psychiatric disorders," Church reportedly wrote.
"Life expectancy is significantly decreased as a result of HIV/AIDS, complications from the other health problems, and suicide. This alone should make it reprehensible to the medical community, who has an obligation to promote and model healthy behaviors and lifestyles."
So your competency in the field doesn’t matter. All that matters is if you profess liberal dogma.
He speaks the truth. So he’s persecuted.
It was never about ‘equal rights.’ It was about persecuting Christians and special class protection / power grab by the left.
Truth has been banned from schools and the public square since the 60s——so children can be indoctrinated and remain ignorant and slaves of vice for the NWO.
Freedom of Speech and Religion needs to be put back in ALL places and parents need to take back the minds of their children and keep them OUT of Prussian indoctrination centers which ONLY create the Hitler Youth mindset of “group think” (Fear of thinking outside the box).
I believe you’ve described the situation rather well.
Very good chance he will win. Liberty Counsel Christian atorneys are excellent. Its one of the few places worth donating to, to make real diferences for the average person through relevant court victories.
WE also saw it with Mozilla that fired its highly competent CEO merely because of a donation six years early to a pro-traditional marriage group.
This just can’t be. Didn’t Justice Kennedy assure us that this wouldn’t happen? </sarcasm>
wait til he gives them the medical explanation about how AIDS is transmitted
Lavender Mafia uber alles.
Well, it’s true, firing him doesn’t change the facts
“What we see being enacted in corporate America
is vague terms like labeling something ‘offensive’ is grounds for being fired.
We’re seeing deligitimized expressions of religious beliefs. ...
Rather than disagreeing with ideas, (corporate America) is characterizing the expression of a Christian worldview as offensive, hateful and hurtful,
effectively enacting gag orders across corporate America for religious beliefs.”
All people throughout history were punished for stating the “truth” as they knew it-—way before Socrates and Jesus.
Truth will set you free and the evil, sodomite Socialists smell the chains on your little children. They want the children-—is has ALWAYS been about habituating and normalizing vice in children, so Truth has to be shut down at ALL TIMES. (Truth has a special “ring” to it).
That is why the holy Bible was banned in the 60s from the public square and “schools” and Christianity continues to be demeaned and reviled by the sodomites.
Why? Because the Age of Reason is only possible with Truth-—and understanding Good and Evil (Biblical Truths which made the Age of Reason possible along with the US Constitution). Wisdom is discerning Good and Evil (Cicero)-—and we have EVEN THE POPE blurring Good and Evil which is DEMONIC.
The idea of Individualism and Natural Rights from God is uniquely a CHRISTIAN concept and impossible with tribal cultures where no abstract, profound truth can be discerned.
Erasing Classical Education (and the Bible) was essential to the dumbing down of children, so they “feel” what is Right—since they are ignorant of the greatest ideas and theology (Christianity) on the face of the earth.
Only Freedom (US Constitution) came from the Christian Worldview-—Vice creates slavery and only the Holy Bible gives the PERFECT system of Good and Evil, which gives EVERYONE dignity and worth—even the unborn and weak and old.
To make “happy slaves”, the sodomites want to normalize vice in children so they will never attain Virtue which is a requirement of Freedom. They want to USE people in demonic, unchristian ways so they need to train and groom children always, like the harems in Afghanistan do.
Private hospitals which accept federal funds should not have the option of denying the right of free speech.
Every perdaugton has a right to condyloma acuminata!
Private hospitals that accept Federal Funds are just as owned by the Federal Government as the public hospitals that accept Federal Funds. Both will do as the master says.
In a rational society, it is possible to have an objective morality based on reason, reality, and life as the standard of value.This doctor has shown that the homo lifestyle is objectively bad.This means that his statement is a statement of fact, and is not discrimination or bigotry, and is not harassment or offensive. It is the moral equivalent of saying that a drug addictive lifestyle is bad.
But the bottom line is, this is less to do about religious freedom and a Doctor’s responsibility to his patient to be honest with the patient — “He dumb $hit, if you keep sticking peckers in your behind you will get sick and die, duh, your behind was never intended to do what you are doing to it!”
What in the hell is he supposed to say to smokers with bronchitis pneumonia — “Yeah, don’t worry about smoking cigarettes while you are suffering from bronchitis and pneumonia, there is no evidence the two are related, I’m just supposed to make you feel good about yourself and your pathetic life choices, but I’m not supposed to draw your attention to it.”
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