Georgia’s Department of Public Health hired a distinguished California doctor, Eric Walsh (Walsh served on the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS under Bush and Obama), as a district health doctor. Georgia officials heard about some controversy over comments Walsh made regarding human sexuality, Islam, and evolution in messages he had preached over the years. They tasked government workers with listening to his sermons, and then decided to fire him because they did not like what he had to say. One official called Walsh and told him “you can’t preach that and work in the field of public health.”[1] Here’s a well-qualified man who is fired for his personal religious beliefs expressed in a private setting on his own time. Just remember, gay rights and same-sex marriage won’t affect anyone.
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[1]http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434297/eric-walsh-georgia-public-health-doctor-fired-christian-belief
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April 22, 2016 at 3:00 am
Hey…your article link doesn’t work.
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April 22, 2016 at 3:09 am
It’s working now.
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April 22, 2016 at 5:24 am
Here is the other side of the story:
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20140430/dr-eric-walshs-beliefs-disqualify-him-from-being-head-of-public-health-department
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April 22, 2016 at 12:43 pm
Reblogged this on Kevin W. Bounds and commented:
This is exactly the reason the billed should have been signed into law by Governor Deal! Everyone has a right to express themselves, except Christians.
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April 23, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Jason:
Why did you leave out the beliefs that the preaching talks about and the real reason for of the firing of Walsh? Walsh is practicing discrimination in the guise of religious beliefs which is not untypical of the religious ilk.
I thank Bob Mason for linking a different link to the part of the story you placed because everything in the link you placed says nothing about the discrimination Walsh’ s mind set is full of. You used only the religious liberty of belief and nothing about what those beliefs are.
Walsh’s discrimination in the public service sector is akin to Kim Davis who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, then released but required not to interfere by discriminatory acts again in her capacity as Public Clerk… Freed Kentucky clerk: I give God the glory. Now here is the horror of religious beliefs manifested, using God as the scapegoat for hatred.
Here are a few points that your Post deliberately omitted about Walsh’s mindset and character while serving the public:
Walsh should end practicing his profession on the public’s dime.
Walsh’s sermons? You can find them on YouTube.
Here’s some of what he believes:
• Oprah Winfrey is harboring the spirit of the anti-Christ;
• The prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, was influenced by Satan;
• The devil set up Catholicism;
• Acceptance of homosexuals is a satanic ploy to destroy America;
• Rapper Jay Z is a disciple of Satan;
• Single mothers are ruining their children;
• Disney movies, which are loaded with violence, sex and magic, are a satanic ploy to split up families;
• Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a “satanic belief”;
• The distribution of condoms to a public in need leads to higher AIDS rates;
• The pope is the anti-Christ.
Free speech? You bet. And, our laws give him every right to believe in a hateful, bigoted and small-minded creed but not to use God and Religious Beliefs as scapegoats for hatred that discriminates against significant populations of humanity.
Its prideful, marginalized and wrong-headed nature can’t help but affect Walsh’s judgement. It’s a belief system that makes Dr. Walsh incredibly unsuited for public service as the city’s chief health officer.
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April 23, 2016 at 12:06 pm
Bro Kevin:
Did you re-blog the other side of the story about Walsh’s hateful discrimination? Probably not eh Bro?
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April 27, 2016 at 6:16 am
The technique required here to assess the completeness of the argument is called “critical thinking”. It’s a process whereby you question the speaker’s assumptions, evaluate the logic of his arguments and examine alternate explanations before rendering judgment. Just because it is performed in a part of the brain separate from that which deals with religious empathy doesn’t mean you can’t exercise both areas of your brain at the same time. In this case the question which should have been asked was rather easy to formulate – what was the actual content of the good doctor’s sermons? As it turns out, the answer was also quite easy to get to. Google took all of a half second to search the databases, my computer downloaded the results in a couple of seconds and I needed about 60 seconds to locate the Pasadena News article (sorry, I’m a bit slower than the machines). Had David French or Jason or Todd Starnes, who also blogged the David French story on foxnews.com, asked that simple sermon content question we most likely wouldn’t have bemoaned the persecution the Dr. Walsh, but would have instead recognized the blatant bigotry of his thinking. Whether or not that bigotry would have been condemned is still an open question.
I have noted that the French, Dulle and Starnes posting of the supposed persecution of Dr. Walsh, as well as the reblog by Brother Kevin, are still on their respective websites without retraction, clarification or apology from the site owners for the incompleteness of the story line. I find it hard to believe that the positions of Dr. Walsh constitute modern day Judeo-Christian apologetics. I appreciate how the attacks of hard core atheists and secular thinkers can lead to a hardening of one’s beliefs, but failure to condemn such absurd bigotry is tantamount to endorsing it. Jason wonders why doubt in the value of Christian thinking is increasing. Perhaps a long, hard look in the mirror is in order.
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