War on Christianity - Major New Offensive for #PCMadness

Forced to use transgender pronouns: Doctor speaks out after tribunal rules

Bible ‘incompatible with human dignity’

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A British doctor has warned that a dangerous precedent has been set after a tribunal ruled that he was rightfully terminated for refusing to use transgender pronouns, and that his Christian values clash with those of UK society.

Dr. David Mackereth was fired from his job at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after telling his manager that in a hypothetical scenario, he would never “call any 6-foot tall bearded man madam.”

He would never “call any 6-foot tall bearded man madam.”

The case was brought before a Birmingham employment tribunal, which said in its ruling that the government department had every right to sack Mackereth, and that the doctor’s biblical beliefs have no place in British society.

"Belief in Genesis 1:27, lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgment are incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others."

“Core” Christian beliefs have been labeled as

unfit for modern life

Speaking to RT, Mackereth said that the ruling has profound and troubling implications for freedom of speech and conscience in the UK.

"The question here is whether I can be forced to do something and to say something that goes deeply against my conscience."

He said that the judgment means that “you’re not allowed not to believe the transgender movement’s maxims,” while “core” Christian beliefs have been labeled as unfit for modern life.

Mackereth plans to appeal the ruling.

It was just a matter of time before PCMad western societies got around to declaring the Bible as incompatible with #PCMadness. We need to pray that courts abandon this anti-Christian ruling, but we shouldn't be surprised if we see this insanity spread like wildfire in western societies.

Politically correct people do not, in general, believe in God, and have no fear of standing in judgment before Jesus Christ. They will, as we all will, and they will then find out that 'modern life is unfit for Christianity'! 

Jude 1:7 - Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

2 Peter 2: 1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)— 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

Judge Quotes Bible, Allows Ex-Husband Who Battered ‘Adulterous’ Wife Walk Free

The judge quotes from the Old Testament and alludes to the Quran, both of which are examples of legalism. Jesus fulfilled the law and supplanted it with grace. When He was brought an adulterous woman, her accusers wanted Him to lead the stoning, but Jesus said, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone'. Her accusers disappeared; Jesus forgave the woman and told her to go and sin no more. That's grace! That's Christianity!

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Portuguese judges sparked anger after quoting the Bible as justification for handing down a suspended sentence to a man who attacked his ex-wife with a nail-studded bat. He had alleged that she was unfaithful to him.

The attacker was given a 15-month suspended sentence, and a fine of €1,750, for the 2015 assault, which left his victim covered in cuts and bruises. Prosecutors had argued that the sentence was too lenient and appealed for three-and-a half-years jail time. This request was rejected by appeal court judges on October 11, according to AP.

In the Porto court's written ruling, which became available only on Monday, the judges wrote that "adultery of the woman is a very serious attack on the honor and dignity of man," before further noting that there are still some societies in which "the adulterous woman is stoned to death,” as cited by Publico.

"In the Bible we can read that the adulterous woman should be punished with death,” wrote judge Neto de Moura, who then went on to use a 19th-century law to justify the lenient sentence for the attacker.

He used a 4,000 year old law to condemn the woman. Was he confident that the man had never committed adultery on his wife? Was it even a consideration? Is a wife justified in beating her husband if he cheats on her? Portuguese law has just taken a step back into the dark ages. I'm sure Muslim men will be thrilled.

“It was not long ago that the criminal law [of 1886] punished with little more than a symbolic penalty the man who, finding his wife in adultery, in that act killed her. Women’s adultery is a conduct that society has always condemned and strongly condemns (and honest women are the first to stigmatize adulteresses), and so she sees with some understanding the violence exercised by the man [who was] betrayed, vexed and humiliated by the woman,” he added.

But men's adultery has always been excused. Come on Portugal; enter the 21st century. It's time to retire some senior judges!

Criticizing the ruling, Attorney General Guilherme Figueiredo said: "It creates the false idea that the adulterous woman deserves punishment, unlike the adulterous man, which can create a wrong idea for violent citizens. We must be aware that there is a very serious problem of domestic violence in Portugal.”

Women's rights groups also criticized the judges, with the Women’s Alternative and Response Union describing the ruling as “inadmissible” because it legitimizes violence against women. The group also said it planned to hold protest rallies this Friday.

2000% Increase in Cost of TB Drug to be Reversed

Tuberculosis drug price jumps 2,000%, shocks doctors

Cycloserine is a critical drug used to treat a rare form of tuberculosis
file photo of generic drug

CBC News

Front-line tuberculosis doctors in Canada were recently sticker shocked that the price of an essential medication for drug-resistant TB went through the roof for no apparent reason.

Cycloserine is a critical drug used to treat a rare and dangerous form of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

Overnight in North America, cycloserine went from $15 US per pill to $360 US.

"Everyone in the TB community in North America has been going crazy over the last week or so when they realized the price had gone up by over 2,000 per cent," said Amir Attaran, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa who specializes in drug policy.

'It is people looking to make a quick buck.'

— Prof. Amir Attaran

It's part of a trend in the pharmaceutical industry of small companies buying up old, off-patent drugs and jacking up the price.

"It's people coming from hedge funds," said Attaran. 'It is people looking to make a quick buck."

The patent on cycloserine expired long ago. Elsewhere in the world, it sells for 22 cents US a pill. It is considered an essential medicine by the World Health Organization.

The drug company Lilly developed cycloserine in the 1960s. In 2007, the company gave the North American rights to sell the drug to the Chao Center, a non-profit associated with Purdue University in Indiana.

Last month, the Chao Center transferred the rights to Rodelis Therapeutics, which raised the price. On Monday following a New York Times story centred on the price increase for another infectious disease drug, the price fell of cycloserine fell to $35 US per pill.

The two organizations recently said the rights to the drug will be transferred back to the non-profit Chao Center. 

Dr. Dina Fisher, medical director of the Calgary Tuberculosis Centre,
originally thought an email about the price increase of cycloserine
must have been a typo. (CBC)

Ottawa urged to regulate

Dr. Dina Fisher, medical director of the Calgary Tuberculosis Centre, currently has two patients on the medication.

Fisher said when she originally saw an email on the 2,000 per cent increase, she thought it was a typo.

"I was shocked at the percentage increase in a drug that's really essential for some of our patients," Fisher said.

People with multidrug-resistant TB typically take five or six drugs and are treated for 18 to 24 months, she said. They take two to three tablets of cyloserine a day.

Attaran is writing up what happened for the medical journals because he thinks it's important for doctors to know that a medicine a patient depends on to live can increase in price so much and so quickly.

"Ottawa needs to regulate the price of those unpatented medicines … to prevent this happening again," he said.

So to answer the question I asked yesterday as to why a pharmaceutical company would dramatically raise the price of an unpatented drug - it appears they are focusing on specialty drugs with a very limited number of patients, consequently generic drug making companies don't bother to reproduce them as there is little profit to be made.

You have to wonder what happens in a board-room when a company decides to apply an astonishing increase in the price of a drug. It seems the dollar signs blind the board members to any form of human compassion or dignity. I'm glad Rodelis is reversing this price gouge, there may be a glimmer of humanity there.

The buying up of rights for a drug simply to raise the price and make a killing is incredibly immoral and ought to be illegal.

Deal being reversed

In an email to Attaran which was shared with CBC News, Lilly vice president Dr. Evan Lee said the company gave up all rights over cycloserine "including any pricing or access decisions" in its 2007 deal with the Chao Centre.

"The subsequent transfer to third parties is a decision over which we do not have control," Lee wrote.

The Chao Center, for its part, said in a statement to CBC News that, after the price of cycloserine went up, "it became clear that the Rodelis strategy was not consistent with the Chao Center's expectations or vision." 

The Chao Center and Rodelis now appear to be reversing the deal.

The latter said in an email late Monday that both organizations "agreed last week that it is in the best interests of the patients to return the rights of Cycloserine to The Chao Center."

If it weren't for all of the negative publicity, Attaran says he thinks the original, 2,000 per cent price hike would still stand.

There have been multiple problems with access to TB medications in Canada, which can lead to spread of disease, Fisher said. That's why it's important the drug supply is protected and not subjected to random increases in cost that the health-care system can't continue to take, she said.

In Canada in 2012, nine cases of multidrug resistant TB were reported, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.

With files from CBC's Kelly Crowe