When the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston sent out an email to staff members inviting them to participate in the hospital’s Pride float, God himself compelled Dr. Paul Church (his real name, apparently), who was employed at the hospital at the time, to take action.
In response, Church hit “reply all” then hammered out an angry response warning everyone who worked at the hospital of the dangers of homosexuality.
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In the letter, Church claimed that “behaviors common within the homosexual community are unhealthy and high risk for a host of serious medical consequences” including “parasitic intestinal infections” and “psychiatric disorders” that could lead to suicide.
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Participating in a Pride float, the doctor argued, was “reprehensible” and “[jeopardized] the credibility” of the hospital, adding that it “dishonors a large proportion of its community who continue to hold to the conviction that homosexuality is unnatural and immoral.”
He concluded his email by saying LGBTQ activists and Pride revelers engaged in “peculiar activities” and “promoted perversions,” were “misguided” and held the “wrong values.”
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After hitting “send” Church then went on a rampage posting comments on the hospital’s internal Internet system about why homosexuality was evil and dangerous and gross and shouldn’t be embraced by anyone, let alone Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital staffers.
As a result of his actions, Church was fired.
That was in 2009, and the doctor has been fighting with the hospital board ever since, claiming he was discriminated against for voicing his own discriminatory beliefs. Now, six years and two unsuccessful appeals later, Church has enlisted the aid of none other than Kim Davis’ lawyers to help get his old job back.
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Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver told OneNewsNow, “[Dr. Church] has lost his medical credentials at that particular medical facility. Why? Because he chooses to have the best interests of his patients and the others in the Center as his first priority, as a doctor should.”
Staver continued, “He will not promote an immoral lifestyle that is clearly harmful to both physical and mental health.”
Staver went on to say Church was being punished for simply telling the truth, and that his termination could very well mark the end of medical science as we know it.
“If a medical scientist cannot raise research that the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control clearly shows homosexual conduct as harmful,” he concluded, “then that means that your health, my health, medical science — all of that is being called into question simply because of a political agenda.”
We have just one thing to say to Dr. Church…
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Bill Mountrey
Why? They made money but failed her. Her dept. no longer needs her signature – nor presence.
Ben Stimpson
Not going to lie, the way they worded this article’s title, I actually thought ‘Doctor Who’ was fired… Ithought it strange a Timelord would need lawyers
martinbakman
Doc must be reading Queerty.
Shay Kreitzman
Ariel Shostak Doctor Who Was Fired! jk
André Carlo Pretorius
Jennifer Mercury
Wow. Glad the douche was fired. Talk about creating a hostile work environment.
MikeColling83
Not cool Doctor Who! Not cool!
Ogre Magi
More christian homophobia
THANKS A LOT JESUS!
Jeff Hill
Quick, impound his TARDIS
Andrew Button
1EqualityUSA
Here are the nut cases that the GOP partners with, so expect more of these freakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XTq0KxacZs
Brian JC Kneeland
He should have lost his job!
Gabriel Robichaud
haha for a minute, i thought this was an article about Doctor Who and I was all excited… buzz kill.
Giandorko86
@1EqualityUSA: great videos thanks for posting
1EqualityUSA
Scary stuff, the GOP. Ted Cruz is a nutter. I have to go back to my cooking. Throwing Muses are helping me from drifting into a kitchen miasma. Tethered to sound, I will survive this zucchini torte. January 2nd is my favorite day of the year. That means a whole year before we have to do this holiday thing again. The best comment I got on my studio apt, when I was young and single, my UPS friend said, “It looks like August in here, no sign of the Season.”
Gone are those days. Throwing Muses can’t get me through December 23.
Get married, my friend, and those days are through! I must go cook now.
OhHellNo
I’d comment, but I’m busy working on letters about the evils of assholes who pretend to be Christians.
Brandon Humphries
WTF dr who? The TARDIS must warp minds!
Tom Remillard
15 minutes of fame people
Joseph Pasquino
Bye bitch (felicia s cousin)
Dwight
Those attorney’s didn’t do too good of a job for Kim Davis. She ended up in jail.
The problem with listing all the diseases, etc. that can be transmitted through “homosexual” activities is that much of them are transmitted by acts of sodomy which means heterosexuals susceptible to the exact same things. He seems to only be concerned with these diseases when they are the result of activity between willing participants of the same sex. Hey, if it happens to a heterosexual couple it must be okay!
jonjoe
Where did this quack get his “degree” – Liberty University???
Typhon
I’m sorry, he was only telling the “truth”? The truth as he sees it… Of course STDs are hardly confined to the homosexual community nor do we hear a whimper about black folk being more at risk of diseases linked to poverty etc i.e. his “reasoning” is highly selective. Yes the gay community has some issues but we are hardly unique in this respect. No doubt Mr Church would be the first to complain if someone had the temerity to point out the simple truth that religion is at the core of a lot of violence and war (think I.S.) and perhaps we would all be better off without this self-indulgent spiritual prozac.
As for “unnatural”! Natural to me is whatever occurs in what is left of our ecosystems in which case homoseuxality is as natual as it gets, every mammal species studied has a certain percentage of its population that behaves in a homosexual fashion. People like Mr Church would not bat an eyelid at heterosexual couples doing an end run around nature in order to try and conceive with fertility treatments, surgery, artificial insemination if they were infertile… consider also the unnatural fibres we wear, the vaccines, synthetic drugs etc that are the reason many of us survived childhood… the unnatural polymers and alloys in the electronic toys we play with… the list is endless but apparently being “unnatural” is a show stopper only for queers. Selective reasoning is not reasoning at all, it is just a figleaf for bigotry.
AS for being immoral… holy crap! This guys thinks he is a person of superior morality by virtue of the fact he takes what are at core his subjective feelings, dignifies them with the term “faith” and holds that up as a superior means of discerning truth than getting off his lazy arrogant behind to find out. His “loving” deity is going to condemn the bulk of humanity that he claims to love to an eternity of torment, burning and torture in hell which has no redeeming function… it exists only to exact retribution and cause pain. This is not moral, it is monstrous.
Such self-righteousness gave us Hitler, Stalin and Torquemada. Enough said.
Tracy Pope
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Tracy Pope
Just in case it’s what I wrote above this here it is again:
So, six years and two unsuccessful appeals later he thinks using a religious attorney will work? At this point the courts should throw him in jail for stupidity.
Also, it appears Mat Staver has already exposed his hand – he plans to use outdated ideas and “science” as his client’s defense. This isn’t about a political agenda. He can try to use strongly held personal beliefs (religious or otherwise) but if he attempts that or the “science” route he will lose.
I see the hashtagMyTreedom about Christians in predominantly Muslim countries whose lives are actually in danger because of their beliefs and then hear Christians here in the US saying they’re being persecuted for their beliefs and I just want to smack (I changed that word) them in the face for being so arrogant and idiotic. We have laws to protect everyone – not just them – from persecution. They should count themselves fortunate.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
The AMA needs to revoke this guy’s license.
onthemark
Good for Beth Israel, and this adds to their great history with gays in Boston. Back when I was a happy-but-scared young slut, Beth Israel ran the low-cost clinic that many of us went to and got education from. They had a great staff who I always felt comfortable discussing sex stuff with, and they rescued me from a lot of misinformation and anguish. (This was back before the Fenway Community Health Center really got going as the go-to place.)
Betty Walker
Glad he was fired, shows how ignorant he is with his homophobic hate, wouldn’t want this creep to be my or my family’s doctor
JessPH
Good riddance, ignoramus.
Vortece
If Dr. Church wasn’t such a hateful bigot he might recognize that a float in the gay pride parade might help gay people feel more comfortable with the medical community which might improve their access to the healthcare system and give him the opportunity to address some of these problems. On the other hand, I wont feel very inclined to keep my appointment if I think my doctor see’s me as some kind of crazed and diseased pervert.
David Foltz
I thought Dr. Who was Gay??? LOL! 😛