Linda Harvey, head of Mission: America, warns parents to not let gay or lesbian doctors, nurses, or other medical practitioners attend to your children — and goes so far as to suggest drafting a letter to be filed with their pediatrician’s office so that if your child is hospitalized, no homosexual (or, presumably, bisexual or transgender) medical professional would be allowed to tend to your child’s needs.
Harvey claims that a doctor or nurse who might be wearing a rainbow pin, for example, could indoctrinate children about the “homosexual lifestyle,” without informing them about all the evils associated (in her mind) with it.
Claiming an LGBT physician’s sexual orientation is “erroneously influential to children,” Harvey, whose group should be classified as an SPLC-certified hate group, adds,
“There are a few homosexual doctors treating kids, there are far more nurses, LPNs, technicians and other health care workers in these lifestyles. Should your child ever be hospitalized, you do not want your child treated or cared for by one of these members of the Children’s Hospital gay employees group.”
Audio and transcript thanks to Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch:
How do you feel about open homosexuals tending to your child in a health care setting? Do you think these folks provide good role modeling at a time when your child is very vulnerable? I was thinking about this recently when I heard that Children’s Hospital in Columbus has a homosexual employees group called NCHARGE, which stands for Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Advocates Representing Gay Employees. The meeting minutes of this groups reveal that they participated in last June’s gay pride parade, that they participated in a health expo on adolescent health this summer and that they’re concerned about same-sex partner benefits. They’re also planning to be identified with rainbow lapel pins.
But let’s say your eleven year-old has broken her leg rather badly and needs to be in the hospital a few days, which would you prefer: a nurse who’s proud of her lesbianism, who has rainbow identifiers on her work clothing, or a nurse who does not?
I would like to suggest that parents think long and hard about this. If you want your children to admire people who proclaim a homosexual lifestyle, they’re involvement with your child during a hospital stay is sure to be an influence. And let me be clear that folks involved in these behaviors can be certainly competent workers but they are tacking on to their workplace identity one that is highly offensive to many people and can be erroneously influential to children who won’t, or shouldn’t, see the whole picture of how this behavior really manifests itself.
Here’s what parents can do: select your pediatrician very carefully, first of all. There are a few homosexual doctors treating kids, there are far more nurses, LPNs, technicians and other health care workers in these lifestyles so you may want to consider writing a letter that you file with your pediatrician that should your child ever be hospitalized, you do not want your child to be treated or cared for by one of these members of the Children’s Hospital gay employees group except in the case of an emergency situation. But for routine in-hospital care where contact with your child would be required, your values should be respected.
(Emphasis mine.)
The day will come, I all but guarantee, that Linda Harvey or her fear and hate mongering bigots will find themselves in a life or death situation, and will be forced to be saved by someone who is an “open homosexual.” And I guarantee they will provide the best care possible, which is far more than Linda Harvey and her ilk deserve.
Previously, Harvey has said of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, “there are no such humans,” and declared there’s no proof they exist.
Also earlier this year, Harvey announced that ending the concept of gay identity would “make a serious dent” in ending HIV, and demanded that gays and lesbians be banned from teaching in schools and and classified the It Gets Better Project as “evil.”
“Kids should not be put in the confusing position of having a teacher they like and respect in many ways who’s also known to be practicing homosexual behavior,” Harvey said, and added, “Out and proud homosexuals should not have jobs that involve children.”
I think “out and proud bigots” are the real danger to kids.
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I think the notion of refusing tontreat a patient based on their beliefs I'd not only incredibly unprofessional, it's unethical, especially in the case of a pediatric patient. They have no control over their parent's views, opinions, or actions and refusal to treat only reinforces the opinion that LGBT people are bad. "Kill them with kindness" was what my mother always told me. As hard as it might be, it is the high road and the one that should be taken. If we stoop to the level of the fanatics, we are no better than they are. Theore visible and positive experiences that the general public has with LGBT people, the more willing they will be to accept us because they can see who we really are: people.
I thought the sarcasm was clear. I guess not! I tweaked it to be clearer.
Oh, my bad. Sleep deprivation and midterm stresses may have aided in that lack of a sense of humor.
Oh, no need to apologize — it's my intent to be extremely clear, so I appreciate the heads up!
Ermm…does this NCHARGE even really exist? After reading her comment, I googled it and all I got was… here and rightwingwatch commenting on her comment. Which was disheartening, since I'm a long time child mental healthcare worker currently in a facility with no real LGBT presence. Sigh…
Gosh, health care providers can barely get kids to live healthy lifestyles; how does anyone imagine they will get them to live gay ones? By wearing a rainbow pin? C'mon! Those who think kids are so susceptible to being "made gay" must themselves find homosexuality REALLY attractive and tempting.
This is amazing! People of their "political spectrum" want to Kill Granny, Kill the Poor, Let Women Die, and then there's this! It's just amazing. I frankly don't know of any parent that cares about the sexuality of a doctor, if that doctor can help or save the life of their child, it doesn't matter. Would I want to put my care into the hands of a doctor that feels like these people do where anyone that isn't of some sort of political part should just die? I think not. And I am sure not going to suggest that anyone search for medical care based on that, because you might just be on the death list that week for these people.
She certainly is giving parents very bad advice. There is no legal liability to a hospital for ignoring a parent's directive that their child not be treated by a gay health care provider. However, if a parent insisted on this condition, and subsequently, something went awry with the child's care, the hospital *and* the parent would be liable and subect to criminal charges, just as are Christian Scientist parents that deny adequate health care to children. And, it's hard to imagine many pediatricians accepting the type of directive Linda Harvey recommends in their files. It flies in the face of the American Medical Association's ethics code, for example.
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