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Church said he asked the hospital to stop sending him emails promoting LGBT culture and events, but he continued to receive them.
originally posted by: Boadicea
So I hang my head in shame, and slink off to hide under a rock...
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
And when he responded with an email that they didn't want to receive, he was expelled.
Should People Be forced to Participate in Things they don't agree with?
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: DBCowboy
Bakeries don't do weddings... They bake things. Baking a cake is NOT "participating in the wedding".
originally posted by: DBCowboy
Fine. Try being a bakery that doesn't believe in gay marriage NOT prepare a cake to celebrate gay marriage.
Either way, they can't.
They have to participate.
They have to serve their customer base.
originally posted by: ChesterJohn
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
I do believe that if your product is involved it is a form of participation.
No. He wasn't fired for responding. I suggest you read up on what actually happened.
He wasn't fired for that. He was fired for harassing his employers and other staff with his anti-LGBT emails.
Let's establish who and what Dr. McHugh is. Dr. Paul McHugh is an ultra-Conservative Catholic who blames gays for the church's sexual abuse scandal, believes sexual orientation is a choice and would rather let an 11-year-old girl raped by a relative die rather than have an abortion. He was part of the campaign that led to the murder of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in 2009.
When he was put in charge of the gender clinic Johns Hopkins in the 1975, by his own admission he intended from beginning to close it. The "study" he did was designed from the start to facilitate his goal. The study itself was pure nonsense, full of non-reproducible results, punishing patients for having jobs that were "too masculine," or having been married to a woman at some point in their lives. McHugh has made it clear he finds cultural acceptance of transgender people unacceptable.
As a result, no reputable researcher will cite his "study," and was not considered credible by any professional medical or mental health organization when developing guidelines for the treatment of transgender individuals.
The Liberty Counsel is recognized by the SLPC as an anti-LGBT hate group.
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
He just felt he was being pushed and he pushed back.
I think it would go a long way to mutual acceptance, if we started by allowing people to have their own beliefs, without trying to convert, or demonize them, for not thinking or wanting the same things that we do.
You're right. And an employer/employee relationship is such that, if there is a disagreement, the employee is free to quit their job for reasons they determine relevant and the employer is also fairly free to terminate employment for their own reasons.