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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: blasphemy; dreher; gender; uk
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To: budj; 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.

Or ovarian or cervical cancer, for that matter.

(Either sex can get breast cancer though it's much rarer in men.)

41 posted on 07/08/2018 9:07:56 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: oblomov

Perhaps he can be assigned to a re-education camp. And if that doesn’t work, maybe he can be granted permanent disability status, for having incorrect thoughts.


42 posted on 07/08/2018 9:08:09 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: null and void

Who you gonna believe? Me (the govt bureaucrat) or your own lyin’ eyes?


43 posted on 07/08/2018 9:08:13 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: rktman
I'm assuming they mean sex is determined at the fertilization of the ovum; but (except with prenatal sonogram) often is not detected ("determined"?) until later. So the "determination" of sex would be at birth.

The worst word used in this context is "assigned." Like "I'm changing my gender assignment." Dog ate your homework?

44 posted on 07/08/2018 9:12:24 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: oblomov
1)sex is not theological and 2) it would only been blasphemous if he said otherwise...
45 posted on 07/08/2018 9:12:51 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: RipSawyer

Patient with a pee-pee: I’m a lady!

Principled physician: No yer not, mate

NHS: On yer bike doc We need a 2nd opinion


46 posted on 07/08/2018 9:13:22 AM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Gen.Blather

The doctor is openly practicing biology.


47 posted on 07/08/2018 9:13:55 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s like the Christian belief that water is wet.


48 posted on 07/08/2018 9:17:29 AM PDT by Jim Noble (p)
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To: fruser1
"And it all started with the 'false' belief that marriage was between a man and a woman"

And that started with the belief that fertility is detachable from sex, and procreation in marriage is a glitch, not a feature.

49 posted on 07/08/2018 9:17:33 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is, they put ideas in his head he thought were his)
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To: oblomov

Actually sex is determined at conception during Meiosis.

You’d flunk Bio 101 if you didn’t get that.

Since I took that in the fall of 1972, I was treated to a bunch of lawyers in robes declaring that life actually begins 3 months later in the second semester.

It was pretty obvious that they didn’t teach biology in law school.

And it’s also obvious that Commutard bureaucrats in the English government are equally ignorant of freshman biology.


50 posted on 07/08/2018 9:24:55 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

NATO wants to euthanize Russia, for its own good, since it is an unforgiveably Christian, heterosexual nation.


51 posted on 07/08/2018 9:28:27 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( I pray Gods eyes may once again gaze upon me and remind me that I am still His child.)
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To: BenLurkin

What is a doctor going to do now? Well, actually most people get the ultrasound results before the actual birth but what’s it going to be?

You have an “IT”....or... a “THING”...or “WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE”...Don’t decide now - you can always change your mind later.


52 posted on 07/08/2018 9:37:57 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RipSawyer

Thank you. I read that sentence many times over trying to figure out what was wrong with him doing that. lol
Yes, if the words “did not” were not placed in the sentence, it shows what they are doing.


53 posted on 07/08/2018 9:38:37 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (9/11/01 Never Forget. Never.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I’m shocked, SHOCKED I say, that you would even question a government bureaucrat!


54 posted on 07/08/2018 9:49:08 AM PDT by null and void (Freedom is in our blood, we don't pass it down genetically, but through the blood we spill.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Very much reminded of 1984 this morning.”

Any who is interested, that is hillary’s favorite book. I can see why.....total CONTROL OVER POPULATION. Read on Drudge that she may run again. Oh good grief.


55 posted on 07/08/2018 9:55:13 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Very much reminded of 1984 this morning.”

Any who is interested, that is hillary’s favorite book. I can see why.....total CONTROL OVER POPULATION. Read on Drudge that she may run again. Oh good grief.


56 posted on 07/08/2018 9:55:13 AM PDT by kagnew
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To: oblomov

The NHS is notorious for needless deaths due to incompetent doctors. And they seem to LOVE foreign doctors over native British doctors. This guy’s opinion is simply too grounded in logic for the totally nuts British government and authorities, so he’s gotta go. They’d rather have some third world bottom of their medical class scum calling the shots.


57 posted on 07/08/2018 10:08:16 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Skywise
madness madness

Madness... Madness...
58 posted on 07/08/2018 10:10:38 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didnÂ’t.")
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To: Menehune56

Romans 1:22-32 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)

22-23 Behind a facade of “wisdom” they became just fools, fools who would exchange the glory of the eternal God for an imitation image of a mortal man, or of creatures that run or fly or crawl.

24 They gave up God: and therefore God gave them up—to be the playthings of their own foul desires in dishonouring their own bodies.
The fearful consequence of deliberate atheism

25-27 These men deliberately forfeited the truth of God and accepted a lie, paying homage and giving service to the creature instead of to the Creator, who alone is worthy to be worshipped for ever and ever, amen. God therefore handed them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged the normal practices of sexual intercourse for something which is abnormal and unnatural. Similarly the men, turning from natural intercourse with women, were swept into lustful passions for one another. Men with men performed these shameful horrors, receiving, of course, in their own personalities the consequences of sexual perversity.

28-32 Moreover, since they considered themselves too high and mighty to acknowledge God, he allowed them to become the slaves of their degenerate minds, and to perform unmentionable deeds. They became filled with wickedness, rottenness, greed and malice; their minds became steeped in envy, murder, quarrelsomeness, deceitfulness and spite. They became whisperers-behind-doors, stabbers-in-the-back, God-haters; they overflowed with insolent pride and boastfulness, and their minds teemed with diabolical invention. They scoffed at duty to parents, they mocked at learning, recognised no obligations of honour, lost all natural affection, and had no use for mercy. More than this—being well aware of God’s pronouncement that all who do these things deserve to die, they not only continued their own practices, but did not hesitate to give their thorough approval to others who did the same.


59 posted on 07/08/2018 10:13:31 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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To: oblomov

Sex is determined at conception. It’s not assigned at birth like the reality deniers are always saying. That has to be one of the dumbest things they’ve come up with in a long time.


60 posted on 07/08/2018 10:49:04 AM PDT by Trillian
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