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Friday, June 08, 2007
Matt Barber :: Townhall.com Columnist
Left Wants to Amputate Surgeon General Nominee
by Matt Barber
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The Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a host of other radical homosexual activist and leftist organizations are decrying President Bush’s Surgeon General Nominee, Dr. James Holsinger.

Dr. Holsinger, a conservative Methodist, has masters degrees from Asbury Theological Seminary and the University of South Carolina and earned his medical degree from Duke University. Dr. Holsinger previously served as Kentucky’s health secretary and was chancellor of the University of Kentucky’s medical center.

By all accounts, Dr. Holsinger is widely respected by his peers in the medical, academic and state government communities. But, nonetheless, Dr. Holsinger has come under tremendous fire from liberal activists for having the courage to address the compelling medical evidence and multiple studies which underscore the reality that homosexuals can escape the homosexual lifestyle and realign themselves to a biologically and spiritually natural heterosexual “orientation.” The irrefutable reality that thousands of former homosexuals have chosen to leave the “gay” lifestyle they once chose to enter only serves to further bolster – if not prove entirely – Dr. Holsinger’s advised medical assessment.

Much of the controversy revolves around a comprehensive compilation of medical studies Dr. Holsinger distilled titled, “The Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality.” In the study, Dr Holsinger placed scientific substance over political correctness by unapologetically demonstrating the seemingly self evident reality that, from a medical standpoint, homosexual behaviors, such as male-on-male sodomy, are “unnatural” and “unhealthy” and run entirely counter to natural human biological design.

Wrote, Holsinger, “… From the perspective of pathology and pathophysiology, the varied sexual practices of homosexual men have resulted in a diverse and expanded concept of sexually transmitted disease and associated trauma.

“It is absolutely clear that anatomically and physiologically the alimentary (digestive) and reproductive systems in humans are separate organ systems. … Even primitive cultures understand the nature of waste elimination, sexual intercourse and the birth of children. Indeed our own children appear to ‘intuitively’ understand these facts.”

But facts and logic have a way of running counter to the left’s agenda, so we shouldn’t be at all surprised that there is such a liberal gnashing of teeth over Dr. Holsinger’s nomination. He’s clearly struck a chord on the issue of homosexual behavior and the homosexual lifestyle, and that chord rings sour with those who don’t want to hear it.

However, to their bitter discord, that chord does ring true. And when the light of truth, science and reality is shined upon the fantasy world of political correctness in which the left collectively resides, then they quickly scurry for the shadows of self-delusion and send out their most raucous and militant to dampen anything or anyone who might provide illumination.

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J. Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with Liberty Counsel and also serves as Associate Dean with Liberty University School of Law.
 
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Norm, one point of view....
Norm, you have mentioned and asserted every single stereotype, fear mongering and hate inducing myth that almost every single TH discussion on gay life motivates.
Your information flows from ONE source, ONE value, ONE point of view.
That can hardly be called the truth or accurate when there is much more going on that you are clearly ignorant of.

This makes a serious discussion impossible.
I know what Holsinger has done with his writing and this subject matter.

He took information out of context to heterosexual behavior. He composited together what he could to make you believe (as you have shown you do believe), just what you're saying gays and lesbians behave in, believe in and will threaten.

What Holsinger has done is distort the truth to a certain effect to GET a certain reaction.
And what his writing is, isn't NEW, it's not edifying and the results could do a great deal of harm to gay and straight people.

He cannot DO harm. It's contra to his oath of medicine, let alone public health.

The avenue Holsinger is taking, is well worn, common and ultimately deserves to be abandoned.
It's never served the public effectively and rightly.

The ONE avenue NOT taken and is the braver and best course, is the one proven the most effective in public information, empirical evidence and ultimately the betterment of social function and cooperation.

It's proven already. Especially in other cultures more realistic in their approach and integration of gay people.

The unnecessary tragedy is and has always been, the insistence that there is ever any supremacy and primacy of one human being over another, especially based on the single characteristic different from you as all ELSE is equal.
Other groups have suffered from this, however normal and equal in potential they are in the mainstream.
Prejudice tends to keep people from absorbing or respecting the truth if it walked up and kissed them.

History should have taught you the mistakes of the past against the same minorities over and over on this issue.
Holsinger is guilty of distorting history and it's context as well.
A clear violation of standards and practices for his profession as well.
He can't be trusted, period.
And public trust is paramount to this office, or being a physician.


Evidently stereotyping, myth, misinformation and the mischaracterization of heterosexuality mean a great deal more to you than the truth or honesty or the basic principles of openness vital to the study of sexuality and sexual orientation.

And Matt Barber and Holsinger too.
And that is definitely NOT a good thing.


oops...error
I tried to say that the FDA appointee believes that women's sex organs are better served by prayer, than the medications he'd approve or not, according to those beliefs.

I know however, that he doesn't do that with men.
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