Posted on 10/02/2019 6:22:33 PM PDT by Ennis85
A doctor who refused to use transgender pronouns as people's chosen sex as it went against his Christian faith has lost his tribunal.
Disability assessor Dr David Mackereth, from Dudley, West Midlands, claimed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) breached his right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
But a panel ruled his biblical view of what it is to be male and female was "incompatible with human dignity."
Dr Mackereth said he intends to appeal.
The hearing was told he would refuse to refer to "any 6ft-tall bearded man" as "madam" following a conversation with a manager at an assessment centre and later left his role.
The tribunal panel - sitting in Birmingham - found the DWP had not breached the Equality Act. It stated there was no contravention and dismissed the complaints.
"A lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgment are incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others," the judgement said.
Dr Mackereth, 56, said he was "deeply concerned" by the ruling.
"Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended," he said.
"I believe that I have to appeal in order to fight for the freedom of Christians to speak the truth. If they cannot, then freedom of speech has died in this country, with serious ramifications for the practise of medicine in the UK."
Andrea Williams, the chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said if the decision is upheld it will have "seismic consequences" for anyone in the workplace "who is prepared to believe and say that we are created male and female".
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And we were told that this crap doesn’t have any negative impact on anyone else’s life.
So the Bible, the word to us from our Creator, is “incompatible with human dignity”? These people are so lost.....
Clown world
Don’t expect me to be expecting.
Anybody who claims to have been transgendered has been defrauded.
Orwell was a Brit, and not without good reason.
So recognition of the reality of biology and anatomy is now illegal and “incompatible with human dignity.” Apparently perpetuating the myth that people are born in the wrong bodies makes them feel they have more worth?
It’s beyond absurd - they care not about a “lack of belief” in the reality of biology, genetics, and anatomy.
So, now it is required of us to support a mentally ill person in their delusion because to inform them of their delusion would impact their human dignity.
What of my human dignity in living my life as a rational being?
The UK and Europe are lost.
Although God's purpose and sense of humor, defy human understanding.
Entertaining mental illness another left gift to us all
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