Posted on 07/19/2019 7:32:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Christian physician in Britain who lost his job after he said he would refuse to call a bearded man who is six feet tall "madam” has warned that his case indicates Christians could be on “the verge of committing a hate crime for simply using the wrong pronoun.”
Dr. David Mackereth, who had worked as an emergency doctor for the National Health Service for 26 years, claimed during a recent tribunal he was removed from his job with the Department of Work and Pensions in late June 2018 over his religious convictions.
In a recent interview with The Daily Mail, the doctor warned the outcome of his case could have significant legal implications for all Christians — and especially those in the medical profession.
“Someone who presents quite obviously as male is entitled to say ‘Call me Mrs’ or ‘Call me she,’ but the question is, am I legally obliged to do that? And if you are legally obliged to refer to patients in a way your conscience does not allow, does that mean you are no longer fit to be a doctor?” he asked.
“This case is all about whether I am legally clear to say — on the grounds of my religious conscience — No, I can’t call you ‘she’ or ‘he,’ not because I want to hurt you or don’t accept you, but because my Christian convictions simply won’t allow me to do that.”
Mackereth warned that redefining words like “he” and “she” and using them in an arbitrary manner renders them meaningless.
“Add to that the legal sanctions if you misgender someone, and I believe we have a very complicated and troubling problem on our hands,” he said. “We could be on the verge of committing a hate crime for simply using the wrong pronoun.”
In May 2018, Mackereth was asked in a conversation with a line manager: “If you have a man six foot tall with a beard who says he wants to be addressed as ‘she’ and ‘Mrs.,’ would you do that?”
Mackereth, who now works as an emergency doctor in Shropshire, claimed during the hearing last week he was ultimately fired “not because of any realistic concerns over the rights and sensitivities of transgender individuals, but because of my refusal to make an abstract ideological pledge.”
Backed by The Christian Legal Centre, the father-of-four is now suing the government at an employment tribunal for discrimination on the grounds of his religious belief. He claims the DWP breached the Equality Act and his right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
However, the government agency contends that his faith-based views are not compatible with "human dignity" as set forth in current law, specifically the 2010 Equality Act, according to the BBC.
Mackereth said that while he has a “massive groundswell of support,” it’s tempered by a “climate of fear.”
“There are multitudes of doctors and nurses who are very concerned because when we are compelled to do something we disagree with — contrary to our beliefs — we lose our integrity,” he explained.
“The transgender movement, which has now been accepted by the mainstream, has for many of us suddenly come out of nowhere and we are expected to believe and accept it.”
The doctor lamented that the transgender movement is being “pushed on society with great rapidity without taking the time to listen to what people have to say.”
“It’s almost like a form of moral coercion,” he said.
Mackereth acknowledged that some people — Christians among them — sincerely believe they were born trapped in the wrong body and emphasized he believes it’s their right to hold a different view and freely express it.
“If a person has a genuine dysphoria and they believe they are trapped in the wrong body with considerable conviction, I can’t answer the question as to whether that is true or not,” he said.
“All I can say is that I don’t believe you can change sex and I don’t believe you can be trapped in the wrong body, but I accept that they believe both and there should be no hesitation on my part in treating such people.”
While he has “great compassion” for all patients, Mackereth said he “cannot change the fact that, as a Bible-believing Christian, I hold that God made people male and female and that this cannot change.”
Sorry Anglophiles, but Britain is beyond redemption in this world. Why would decent Americans ever again willingly sacrifice material and precious human treasure to save them?
They are simply looking for a reason to exterminate Christians. We’ve been here before...
Well the answer is to set up medical schools to teach transgender medicine, that’s of course is as soon they discover transgender medicine...........
The transgender movement is simply how Romans 1:18-32 continues to work out among those who refused to retain knowledge of the Lord, and all those they can influence with their insanity.
It could turn out no other way than ending in persecution of Christians.
Funny, Planned Parenthood just fired the top woman the same reason.
She was unwilling to embrace billable abortions and papsmears for male-to-female transexuals.
Under socialism everyone works for the government and this is what socialist governments do when you refuse to submit. He wouldn’t take the mark of the beast and lost his job for it.
Wait, a nutjob doesn’t want his feelings hurt so I’m supposed to play along? This is why America put freedom of speech into the Bill of Rights, England. For BLEEP like this.
That’s because many of the world’s western governments have bought into the PC culture...don’t upset the cart or we may get voted out of office.
The problem is that it has taken this issue to wake up the remaining sane people in Britain (and Canada, Germany, etc) that they do not really have freedom of speech, or freedom of conscience, or freedom of religion. They didn’t care when the government used tyrannical powers to ban “hate speech” or “nazi symbols”, or ban religious cults like Scientology, or to punish home schoolers. Those usurpations only affected a small minority that the average person didn’t sympathize with, so the public just let it slide.
Now the governments are going after a significant group, mainstream Christians, but Christianity has been dying in those countries for a long time. I think the only way they are going to be able to turn this around is if they take a page from the old civil rights movement and put up a serious resistance to make the secular majority decide this is not a war worth fighting.
Maybe I should sue every hospital in Britain because they don’t immediately run a pregnancy test when they admit a “six foot tall bearded male”.
Sound like a hate crime to me...a very pervasive one...offensive...insensitive...and shockingly hateful.
From MedicineNet:
Delusion: A false personal belief that is not subject to reason or contradictory evidence and is not explained by a person’s usual cultural and religious concepts (so that, for example, it is not an article of faith). A delusion may be firmly maintained in the face of incontrovertible evidence that it is false. Delusions are a frequent feature of schizophrenia.
A Man who believes he is a woman is by definition, delusional
He was fired because he is Christian.
The question asked was “if a man.....”. So the answer is obvious: “HE.”
The UK is way ahead of the USA in stamping out Christianity and replacing it with *slam.
Thanks for the warning sir but anyone with any kind of believes in the Bible will not fall for this crap , or any other crap that comes along that the devil worshiper types come up with
Now of course when you get to the point where societies or at least states and jurisdictions are starting to require that you hire people that you don’t want to hire or perform you to do sexual things with other human beings who you don’t want to - that’s a whole different story and that’s when you take up arms
Legislative ones with pens of course at first and voting ballots
We have elections here every two years that’s not that much time to do damage
Fascist Britain is at it again.
By another doctor.
I’m a Pediatrician. How Transgender Ideology Has Infiltrated My Field and Produced Large-Scale Child Abuse.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/im-pediatrician-how-transgender-ideology-has-infiltrated-my-field-and-produced-large-scale
“It’s almost like a form of moral coercion,” he said.
Not *almost*.
*IS*
I hope he can sue the hell out of them but it probably
won’t happen.
But wait, isn’t some one going to blame it on to the Muslims?.
I suppose calling the bearded man “Madam Harry” or “Lurch” were rejected as unacceptable compromises?
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