This is pretty crappy: a pediatrician in the U.K. was removed from an adoption panel based on her opposition to adoptions by same-sex couples.
As far as I can tell from this story in the Daily Mail, she wasn't covertly sabotaging individual adoptions or strategically hiding her opinions on the subject, which she attributes to her Christian faith. Instead, she was up front about her beliefs and asked to be allowed to recuse herself from cases with same-sex couples.
Isn't this pretty much exactly what she should have done in this situation? What more could she reasonably have been expected to do--change her beliefs? Winkingly say she had done so?
The prison writings of Alexei Navalny
19 hours ago
Yeah -- this is similar in some ways to the sort of prima facie rejection of Francis Collins. He gets to take it from both sides because he's a) a Christian, who b) believes in an old (4.6 bn yr) Earth. It's sad, because in both cases, honesty is penalized, if not vilified.
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