"Harvard-affiliated hospital dumps Christian doctor because he won’t celebrate gay sex"

thecollegefix.com

After more than 10 years and numerous appeals, a well-respected urologist has been expelled from a teaching hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School for questioning its celebration of all things LGBT.

The board of directors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) revoked the appointment of Paul Church as a 28-year member of the medical staff earlier this month,Church wrote in a statement.

“Medicine has an obligation, a commitment to be honest about the consequences of behaviors in the homosexual lifestyle, at the most remain neutral to it, and to not merely endorse such a dangerous behavior,” Church told The College Fix in an interview last week.

Because BIDMC has ruled that his objection to participating in activities that promote unhealthy sexual behavior is “offensive” to other hospital staff, Church told The Fix he plans to join a new medical association, The Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity, and continue his medical practice in other ways.

That may not be easy: Church said his appointments at two other hospitals have been jeopardized because of the board’s rejection of his final appeal Dec. 8.

One of the largest, best-funded research centers in the country, BIDMC throws lavish hospital-wide LGBT award ceremonies and asks that its staff participate in Boston’s Pride Parade...

Church questioned the hospital’s regular endorsements of the LGBT movement in light of understood facts about homosexual sex, such as higher risk of contracting HIV, syphilis and other diseases, which he compared to the known risks of smoking.