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The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) has issued a proposal to ban the use of the terms “gay”, “prostitute” and “intravenous drug user”, over the fear that they would cause offense.
From the TimesOnline.
Doctors and nurses have been ordered to refer to gay patients as “men who have sex with men” (MSM), to avoid stigmatising those who have had same-sex relationships but do not consider themselves homosexual.
A review is now under way into terms referring to other groups of patients including sex workers and drug addicts.
Professor David Goldberg, of National Services Scotland, which is advising health boards on the issue, said patients who have sold sex for money may not consider themselves to be permanently engaged in the sex industry and, therefore, should not be labelled as such.
Similarly, individuals who may have only injected drugs on a handful of occasions may not wish to be known as drug users.
“It’s about using terminology which is more accurate and getting away from labelling people. We should label the behaviour rather than the person because labels can be stigmatising. Behind the label is a human being,” said Professor Goldberg.
However, gay rights groups said the new terminology was “demeaning” to homosexuals and is urging the health service to think again.
“The trouble is that in trying to avoid offending some people, they end up not including everyone else because it relegates same-sex relationships to a mere physical act,” said David Lyle, a chief inspector with Lothian and Borders police and Scottish co-ordinator of the Gay Police Association.
Maybe this is all more silly political correctness but if the gays are complaining about it then maybe it isn’t such a bas thing after all.
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4 Comments for U.K. Health Service Bans Use of ‘Gay’
While we remiss obver what is happening in the UK, we are failing to see that the same agitprop that is happening over there is happening in this country given the potential passage of ENDA and the “Fairness Doctrine”.
Goldberg and the NHS are missing the point entirely. A person IS and should be defined by their behavior.
A person that steals something is a theif. A person that kills someone is a murderer. A person that sells their body, exchanging sex for money is a prostitute. Men that have sex with men are “gay” or homosexual. Nothing about the labeling is mean spirited or inappropriate.
The gay thing is especially over the top, as most gays openly refer to themselves as being gay.
Likewise, a person that turns away from their immoral, illegal or socially aberrant behavior is referred to as an “ex-” whatever.
Life is all about the choices we make, whether good or bad. Not labeling people based on their behavior is taking political correctness to a ludicrous level.
I can’t help wondering what non-offensive terms the Brits will dream up to replace murderer, rapist, and my personal favorite catch-all, yobbo.
The UK is crumbling before our very eyes, and it is a terrible tragedy to see a once-great nation succumbing to the pathology of political correctness. The UK’s NHS should be examining the rampant political correctness and liberalism as the diseases they are for the health and very survival of the nation itself. Are the Muslim infiltrators/immigrants the driving force behind the scenes, working to break down the English society? I certainly wouldn’t be surprised. The more they can destroy a nation’s character, integrity and identity, the easier it will be to begin imposing their way in society. I understand that Sharia law is already being introduced and accepted in some areas of the UK.
Through his words, it is obvious that the professor quoted in the article suffers from the mental disorder that is liberalism. If I had the time and the means to do it, I would be quite interested to conduct a very in-depth study of how this happens to people.
Can the UK still turn itself around?