A Doctor was Expelled from His Position at a Prominent Hospital after Sending Emails with Bible Verses Opposing This...

Julie Brown Patton : Jan 13, 2016
Gospel Herald

He maintains he was wrongfully removed from the staff because his performance and relationship with patients were never an issue. He acknowledged sending provocative emails to hospital officials, which he said were aimed at fostering dialogue but were met with hostility.

Dr. Paul Church said his hospital privileges were revoked at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center because he disagreed with the center's promotion of gay pride events and overall LGBT lifestyles, which he believes is unhealthy and dangerous regarding the spreading of diseases. Church, 66, worked at the hospital for 28 years as an urologist. (Photo: Dr. Paul Church with a young girl who he operated on while on a medical mission trip in Mexico/Courtesy of Dr. Paul Church)

The hospital's 25-member medical executive committee voted to expel him last month, after a decade of email debates about whether his concerns were a form of discrimination.

"They (the hospital) chose a social agenda that they wanted to promote," Church told Fox News. He compared a hospital holding a gay pride event in the same institution organizing an event to promote cigarette smoking.

Church said most of the contention started with one email in 2004, which he said was about the center's 16th annual LGBT Achievement Award ceremony invitation. He said he and others "voiced concerns" about the center's communications regarding Gay Pride Week, too. He said he asked the hospital staff to quit sending him such emails, but the...

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