More Primitives In The News
A Florida doctor's office passed out anti-gay materials to a lesbian patient:
Jamie Beiler of Kissimmee, Fla., who consulted Dr. John Hartman for a routine matter, said she was "shocked and outraged" when she opened the sealed envelope handed to her by Hartman's assistant, Dawn Pope-Wright. Inside, she found a three-part selection of scriptural quotes under the headings: "Homosexual activity is sinful and sexually impure," "While homosexual activity is sin and impure, it is possible with God's help to change," and finally "Moral choices must be made." Each section contained half a dozen passages from the Bible excoriating homosexual acts and other "sexual sins."Beiler filed a formal complaint with Hartman's office, where she was informed that the anti-gay documents were commonly given to patients, the lesbian rights group said in a joint statement with Southern Legal Counsel, Inc., and the Mautner Project.
I find that distressing that they would resort to relgious teachings at a doctor's office. If the doctor has legitimate concerns about homosexual practices on medical grounds, he's free to pass them out as literature, I think. I'd just glance at it, see what it was, and throw it away.
But to proselytize and especially promote an organization that claims to "reform" homosexuals but does more harm than good, is unnacceptable. If he wants to stand on the street corner and preach against homosexuality on his own time, I'm fine with that. I don't have to listen. But to use his professional office to spread his religious literature, especially to those who indicated no desire to see it, is unacceptable.
Patrick at February 4, 2006 7:46 AM
Forgive me if I prefer to get my medical care from doctors who keep up on the latest in JAMA, not the latest in Genesis.
Amy Alkon at February 4, 2006 12:40 PM
Patrick -- I just want to add that information about "homosexual practices" is often relevant to self-identified heterosexuals too. Many of our straight brothers and sisters on both sides of the aisle have discovered the joys of buttfucking, rimming, cum facials, watersports, and getting their butt cheeks spanked by an asssembly line of hard, throbbing penises. You mustn't buy into the stereotype of heterosexuals as humorless and unimaginative! hugs and nipple clamps, Lena
Lena at February 4, 2006 12:49 PM
Thank you, Lena. Yes, even for a number of us non-homos, as Woody Allen said, "Sex is only dirty if it's done right."
Amy Alkon at February 4, 2006 1:38 PM
Another pearl of insight from a depressed quasi-Marxist art student I once knew:
"Children have the dirtiest sex possible. That's why childhood is remembered with nostalgia."
Lena at February 4, 2006 2:23 PM
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